VOL. XLI

No. 20

18-May-1998

LIBYA

Petrofina Produces 5,000 B/D Of Crude Oil From Block NC-170

Belgium's Petrofina is producing 5,000 b/d of crude oil from block NC-170 in the SirteBasin, according to the company's 1997 Management Report. The Belgian firm startedproduction in December 1997 after a year-long extended production test. Libya's NationalOil Corporation (NOC) awarded Petrofina an E&P contract in 1990 for blocksNC-170/171/172, covering a total area of 15,736-sq. kms. in the central...