The National Oil Corporation (NOC) said in the latest data of production rates of a number of offshore oil and gas fields, signaling out Bouri field as the most important.
The NOC's statement clarified that the total production of offshore fields amounted to one billion cubic feet of gas and 42,500 barrels of oil per day (bpd), stressing that Bouri has the largest production.
The statement indicated that Bouri field is the largest among the country's fields in the Mediterranean, as it produces about 23.5 thousand bpd, noting that the production of Al-Jurf field amounted to 19 thousand bpd and Al-Salam field amounted to 1.4 billion feet of gas per day.
Bouri field is located 120 km north of the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea and it has been managed by the Mellitah Oil and Gas Company since the start of production in 1988, knowing that it was discovered in 1967.
President Kais Saied said that Tunisia only got little benefits from the Bouri oilfield, adding that there was an intention to divide the field into two halves with Libya, but this proposal was retracted, remarking in a statement during his visit to the headquarters of the Tunisian Petroleum Activities Corporation, that after January 1974, the date of the declaration of unity between Tunisia and Libya, the proposal for sharing was rejected by the Tunisian side, and Libya brought in an American company that was on the verge of bankruptcy and laid a platform for oil extraction, hence; Libyan-Tunisian relations were again filled with tension.
