“Production has been on line starting on Nov. 10. We started with ... 40,000 bpd, because electric power is very limited,” he said.
Elephant, also known as El Feel, pumped 130,000 bpd before the war. Abuseliana said his team began working on oil stored in tanks and later began operating wells.
“We have restarted five wells,” he said. Some equipment from El Feel, mainly from the control room, had gone missing during Libya’s war, he added.
Eni declined to comment.
Abuseliana said his team was working on getting power back up and running smoothly to increase production. El Feel is adjacent to Spanish oil group Repsol’s El Sharara oilfield in the southwestern desert region of Fezzan. El Sharara restarted production last month.
“It is a slow start ... We will try to increase our production gradually,” Abuseliana said.
“We are missing some devices that need to be found to make our plant function fully ... Control room equipment, devices are missing.”
He said the main damage was at the camp and a team was working on restoring accommodation.
“The plant is OK,” he said.
