Libya’s state-owned Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO) announced today that it had succeeded in reactivating an old well that had stopped any output to return to a production of 1,200 barrels per day.
The company explained that work has been conducted over the past two days to return well No. L02-51 in the non-shared Nafoura field to production.
The well, AGOCO reported, had been naturally producing during 2022 an amount of oil not exceeding 200 barrels of oil per day. The well then stopped producing since the beginning of this year. It had been waiting for the arrival of a maintenance rig.
However, AGOCO explained that after its specialists conducted a study of the well, a recommendation was made to work on the well without moving the maintenance rig, but rather by performing the acidification process using specific quantities of anti-calcification chemicals and quantities of acids for the producing layers. The process was carried out using the Coil Tubing Unit.
This process resulted in the return of the well’s production to about 1,200 barrels per day.
AGOCO said the work on the old well and its return to production comes as part of its policy, set by the National Oil Corporation, to increase overall production rates.
