Libya’s AGOCO Restores Oil Well After Two Decades
Libya’s Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO) has restored production at an oil well that had been inactive for more than 22 years, achieving a test output of 7,355 barrels of crude oil per day, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Thursday. The well, Z3HR-80, is located at the Majid oil field and had been classified as a non-producing observation well for more than two decades. According to the NOC, production tests confirmed that the well was flowing naturally at 7,355 barrels per day, with no associated water production recorded.NOC Modern Drilling Technology Restores Production AGOCO said the well was brought back into production using directional drilling and well re-entry techniques, in cooperation with oilfield service companies CAMCO and Baker Hughes. These techniques allow…
