Libya’s NOC says that the country produced 1.274mn b/d of crude on 17 July, the highest daily figure since the state firm began publishing such data (on an irregular basis) in July 2022. In terms of average monthly output, MEES assessed the June figure at an 11-year high 1.22mn b/d (MEES, 5 July), whilst NOC last week claimed that output from the country’s key Waha concessions had hit 322,000 b/d up from 2023 average of 281,000 b/d (MEES, 12 July).
Another key recent increment has come from the North Hamada field in the country’s northwest. Here NOC announced on 11 July that seven weeks after crude from the field began filling a new pipeline linking the field to the key El Feel-Mellitah trunk pipeline (MEES, 14 June), first crude from the field had now reached the port of Mellitah. From 4,500 b/d for May, the field’s output was set to hit 8,000 b/d in “mid-July” and 10,000 b/d in August with the start-up of five additional wells, NOC says. (CONTINUED - 168 WORDS)