Τρι, 31 Δεκεμβρίου 2013 - 16:53
Libya, holder of Africa's fourth-largest proven gas reserves, has made a new gas find southwest of Tripoli amid efforts to boost the country's hydrocarbon output, state-run National Oil Corp. said Tuesday.
A consortium of NOC, Algeria's Sonatrach, Oil India and Indian Oil discovered gas during the drilling of the B1-96-01 exploration well in the Ghadames basin, some 650 kilometers (404 miles)Southwest of Tripoli, the firm said in a statement posted on its website. The well flowed at a rate of 12 million cubic feet per day of gas through 64 and 32 inch chokes in the Tadrart formation