Minister of Oil and Gas visit to AGOCO

HE Minister of Oil and Gas, Mr. Abdul Rahman Binyeaza visited on Friday, 09/12/2011 the fields of Messla and sareir which belonging to the Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO), he was accompanied by Mr.Omar Alshukmak Deputy Minister and Mr. Mustafa Sana-Allah the acting chairman of the National Oil Corporation and Mr. Abul Qasim Shingeer General Manager, Exploration and Production department of NOC and Chairman, members of the Management Committee and the managers of departments of AGOCO.

The first visited was to Messla oil field which was affected by the destruction and devastation twice during the months of April and June, where the company by the effort of its employees put the field on operation and reached the production of 75 thousand barrels per day out of 100 thousand barrels, the maximum production of the field . The Minister and the accompanying group moved to the Sareir field, the largest oil fields in Libya, which had stopped production after the attack on the power supply, where they had a tour inside the field and listened to an explanations on how production and operation is conducted and were informed about the production which reached, 160 thousand barrels per day out of 220 thousand barrels the maximum capacity of the field.

The minister also visited the Sareir refinery which capable of refining 10 thousand barrels per day, operated now by 100%, where he expressed thanks and gratitude to all staff of the company on the efforts made for the return of production at full speed without the use of any outside help and promised support by the Ministry of oil and gas in order to improve the conditions of production and of the workers in all locations.