Some gas production at Libya's eastern Abu Tifl Field has resumed and 12,000 barrels per day (bbl/d) of oil will start being pumped there from next week, an engineer at the field said on Nov. 10.
Abu Tifl was shut for two years because of protests by local residents and blockades at eastern ports that were recently lifted.
The engineer said oil would be pumped to the port of Zuetina, one of four terminals seized in September by forces loyal to eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar and handed to the National Oil Corp. (NOC).
No figures for gas production at Abu Tifl were available yet. The field previously produced 75,000 bbl/d and output is expected to rise in coming weeks.
Libya's oil production has since September doubled to around 600,000 bbl/d, though it remains well below the 1.6 MMbbl/d the country was producing before its 2011 uprising.
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