Tripoli, 9 October:
Rompetrol is increasing its maintenance operations in . . .[restrict]Libya. The Kazakh-owned Romanian company, believes with NOC’s planned targetted 200,000 boepd increase to 1.8 million boepd in 2013, their maintenance services will be in greater demand.
Managing director, Gavit Kurkimov, said the company has been engaged in its upstream work since: “the [interim] Libyan government pleaded us to start maintenance services at the oil fields.”
He added: “In this regard, Libya today has a great need for overhaul repair of oil wells. We have three drilling rigs in Libya. With the help of them we carry out total overhaul of oil wells.”
Rompetrol is the second largest oil company in Romania. Since 2007, it has been 75% owned by KazMunayGas, Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil and gas company. It has been in Libya since 1986, working in the Murzak basin, in the Libba basin and the Amal oilfield.
Like many other oil companies, Rompetrol suspended its operations in Libya last year, repatriating 63 Romanian employees. However, the company continued to support its Libyan staff during the revolution. Its expatriate staff returned to Libya at the beginning of the year. [/restrict]
