• «Arabian Gulf Oil» in eastern Libya produces 260 thousand barrels per day

    13/04/2015




     

     
    Five million barrels Supplied in the last 4 months
    «Arabian Gulf Oil» in eastern Libya produces 260 thousand barrels per day








     







    A spokesman for the state-owned Arabian Gulf Oil Company, which manages Alharikh Marina and several oil fields, said that the company's production of 260 thousand barrels per day at the moment.
    He also quoted "Reuters" that this is a setback, without giving details.But the spokesman said the lack of a technical problem in the fields or in Alharikh actually in the city of Tobruk.
    He said that the company issued about five million barrels of oil in the last four months.The main asset of the company is Alsarir field and Almaslah that feeding Alharikh port as well as several smaller fields.
    The official said yesterday that the oil sector in Libya closed Aharikh oil port in the east of the country due to bad weather.
    The official, who asked not to be named, said the tanker had been waiting for days for docking at the port in order to download million barrels of crude, but bad weather prevented it.
    Separately, an official at the port of Zueitina east said he expects two tankers loaded with crude oil this week.
    And Libya, aa member of "OPEC" was able to promote the production of about 600 thousand barrels per day to re-open fields in the west of the country and continue to work in the eastern ports.
    And gives the growing exports of Aharikh and Zueitina and hope for Libya's oil sector, which was damaged by the attacks and fighting in the country.
    One official said that the port of Zueitina not expect any new tankers in the next few days, adding that bad weather makes it impossible to dock.
    Number of major oil fields stopped working because of the conflict between the internationally recognized government in the east and the Government of competition conflict captured the capital Tripoli in August 2014.
    Nevertheless, Libya's oil production rose to 622 thousand barrels per day, according to a report from the National Oil Corporation said on Friday.
    It quoted the official news agency today for Masha Allah Alzoi oil minister in the government-controlled competition on Tripoli as saying that the production of 528 thousand barrels per day.

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