Eni and Libya’s National Oil Corporation, working through their Mellitah Oil & Gas joint venture, have started up the new Sabratha Compression Project, aimed at sustaining and boosting gas output from the offshore Bahr Essalam field roughly 100 kilometres from the Libyan coast.
The project centres on a new 1,600-tonne compression module installed on the Sabratha platform, adding about 440 million standard cubic feet a day of compression capacity. By enabling production under lower-pressure conditions, the module offsets Bahr Essalam’s natural decline and is expected to unlock roughly 800 million cubic metres of extra gas a year, along with associated condensate.
The added volumes are meant to shore up domestic power generation and reinforce Libya’s energy security, while also supporting gas exports to Italy via the Greenstream pipeline. Eni, which has operated in Libya since 1959 and remains its leading international operator, currently produces about 162,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the country and has roughly $10 billion tied up across three development projects now under way, including the Bouri Gas Utilization Project and the Structures A&E gas development.
Source: (oilandgasonline.com)