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Monday, November 14, 2011
Libya has moved closer to pre-conflict production levels with the restart of flow from the El Feel field. The field, better known as the Elephant field, is Italian firm ENI’s largest producing field in Libya.
Production from the field is now flowing at 40,000 bpd, about one-third of its pre-conflict levels of over 130,000 bpd. Production levels are expected to pick up once electricity to Libya’s power grid is fully restored.
"Production has been on line starting on November 10. We started with … 40,000 bpd, because electric power is very limited," Hussein Abuseliana, field manager at the site told Reuters by phone.
Abuseliana said his team began working on oil stored in tanks and later began operating wells. "We have restarted five wells," he said. “Some equipment from El Feel, mainly from the control room, had gone missing during Libya's war,” he added.
In October, after its return to Libya, ENI said that the Elephant field was a mess and would take some time to restore. After its inspection of the facility the company said that the airport had been completely destroyed along with crucial monitors and key electronic structures. ENI believed at the time it would be unlikely to bring it back online before the end of the year.
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