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Tuesday, January 26, 2021
The National Oil Corporation announced that the Waha Oil Company has completed the necessary maintenance operations for the main crude oil pumping line connecting the Al-Samah-Dhahra fields and from there to the port of Sidra. The work included the welding and installation of 72 dilapidated connections over five consecutive days under very difficult circumstances due to the absence of budgets that guarantee the integrity of the foundation’s assets.
The maintenance teams worked for long hours in which they worked night and day in order to complete this work in a record time, as it was planned that this work would be completed within two weeks from the start of the project through to the recommencement of production and the operation of the line again.
NOC in a statement, said “It is noteworthy that the absence of budgets for the maintenance of the assets of the National Oil Corporation has led us to reduce and decrease production, and the parties that stand in the way of liquidating these budgets bear responsibility, which costs the public treasury losses and sales opportunities due to these interruptions that will be repeated for the aging of the infrastructure and the lack of the required budgets that are referred to bodies The specialization as a budget and annual work program, unfortunately, is matched by lack of accreditation
“In the face of all this, the National Oil Corporation, expressing its deep regret over what the infrastructure in the national oil sector has devolved upon it, strongly calls for dealing with the sustenance of the Libyans responsibly and the necessity to provide the required budgets and liquidate them on the specified dates on a regular basis. Otherwise, the matter will worsen and may lead to a halt. Production in other locations, as what the Waha company suffered from today occurs daily with many other companies and may lead to a halt in production in most of them.”
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