The head of the Libyan national oil Corporation announced
Sunday the first oil shipment will come out of the port of Al zwaytina
in mid-February, after the cessation of exports due to the closure
following protests last month.
Nuri Berruien said, according to Reuters, that he sent a letter to the management of the port of Al zwaytina in the fourteenth of the current month, to start work immediately.
Berruien said that all the affected fields now work, and pumps oil to the port of Al zwaytina, and the first shipment should begin within weeks.
“The port is closed, within a few days the situation will get better and work will resume,” Abduladeem Shareed, security supervisor at the Zueitina terminal, said on Tuesday.
Deputy Oil Minister Omar Shakmak echoed this.
“We gave the management the go-ahead to plan restarting the operation as soon as possible in consideration of all the security and safety requirements mainly for people and equipment,” he told Reuters.
“I think they are making good progress in this sense.”
No oil has been shipped out of Zueitina, which exports around 60,000-70,000 barrels per day, since the start of January due to protests that began in December. A crude shipment left the terminal around end-December.
Protesters’ threats have affected mainly the shipping of oil rather than gas, because there had been a safe shutdown of the oilfields pumping to the terminal.
Once pumping resumes, it would take 10 to 14 working days for the first shipment to leave the terminal, Shakmak said.
“The (production) operation could start anytime within this weekend. Next week, we’re going to visit the terminal concerning the restart of activities,” he said.
The facility lies some 800 km east of the capital Tripoli.
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Nuri Berruien said, according to Reuters, that he sent a letter to the management of the port of Al zwaytina in the fourteenth of the current month, to start work immediately.
Berruien said that all the affected fields now work, and pumps oil to the port of Al zwaytina, and the first shipment should begin within weeks.
“The port is closed, within a few days the situation will get better and work will resume,” Abduladeem Shareed, security supervisor at the Zueitina terminal, said on Tuesday.
Deputy Oil Minister Omar Shakmak echoed this.
“We gave the management the go-ahead to plan restarting the operation as soon as possible in consideration of all the security and safety requirements mainly for people and equipment,” he told Reuters.
“I think they are making good progress in this sense.”
No oil has been shipped out of Zueitina, which exports around 60,000-70,000 barrels per day, since the start of January due to protests that began in December. A crude shipment left the terminal around end-December.
Protesters’ threats have affected mainly the shipping of oil rather than gas, because there had been a safe shutdown of the oilfields pumping to the terminal.
Once pumping resumes, it would take 10 to 14 working days for the first shipment to leave the terminal, Shakmak said.
“The (production) operation could start anytime within this weekend. Next week, we’re going to visit the terminal concerning the restart of activities,” he said.
The facility lies some 800 km east of the capital Tripoli.
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