Meed | Libya launches prequalification for gas projects

Libya launches prequalification for gas projects

21 February 2023

State-owned Zallaf Libya Oil & Gas Company has invited firms to prequalify for two major projects to develop the Atshan gas field.

One project will develop a gas export pipeline and a receiving station at the field, which is located in the NC210 concession area.

The pipeline will transport treated dry gas over a distance of approximately 304 kilometres from the Atshan gas field to the Ubari power plant. It will use a pipeline with a 24-inch diameter.

The scope of work for the gas receiving station includes:

Knock-out drum (KOD)
Coalescer
Water bath heater
Metering
High-pressure flare system with KOD
Drain system

The second project will develop a central processing facility (CPF) that will receive gas from the Atshan gas field’s wells.

The CPF project will be located at the centre of the Atshan field, according to a statement released by Zallaf Libya Oil & Gas Company.

It will also include the development of related utilities, support and infrastructure in the field.

The CPF will have the capacity to process 280 million standard cubic feet of gas a day (mmscf/d).

Zallaf is a subsidiary of Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC). It was conceived in 2013 and was fully established in 2017 to focus on discoveries that were not yet producing, particularly via early production facilities.

The company was also tasked with unlocking unconventional resources in the Murzuq and Ghadames basins.

NOC tasked Zallaf with developing the NC210 concession, which includes the Atshan field, in 2017.

In 2018 and 2019, Zallaf studied the concession area to explore the possibility of developing oil and gas. The results of the studies were subsequently presented to the management of NOC.

In September, the board of directors of Libya’s NOC decided to transfer the headquarters of the Zallaf Oil Production & Exploration Company to the southern city of Sebha.

At the time, NOC said this was being done “in accordance with the founding decision issued by the Council of Ministers in 2013”.