Exploration & Production

The first quarter of 2012 could see Bahrain Petroleum Company (Bapco) finalise its expansion plans that would help boost Bahrain’s refining capacity to nearly half a million bpd.

Eni has restarted production in fifteen Libyan wells in Abu-Attifel, located 300 km south of Benghazi.

Apache has reported finding two new wells in Egypts Western Desert that signal continued drilling success in the Faghur Basin and on concessions acquired in 2010.

Iraq and BP havent yet reached an agreement on reimbursement of costs to build a multi-billion-dollar oil field water injection scheme in southern Iraq, a senior Iraqi oil ministrys official has said.