Production at Libya's Sharara Recovers

published:16/08/2018 05:06 GMT

Libya's giant Sharara oilfield is producing 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) after the restart of a control station that had been closed due to the kidnapping of two workers, an engineer at the field said on Wednesday. Station 186 was restarted on Sunday amid tightened security, and was producing about 50,000 bpd, around half its normal capacity, the engineer said. The abduction last month of two workers, one Libyan and one Romanian, led to production at Sharara being limited to about 125,000...More