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Mabruk Oil Shuts Down Production From Al-Jurf Field

04-28-2008

Total subsidiary, Mabruk Oil, has temporarily shut down production on the Al-Jurf field offshore Libya.

During drilling operations on the B18 gas injection well, a deviation occurred in the well trajectory, damaging the production pipe of adjacent well B12. For safety and security, all platform wells have been shut down and a team of specialists has been dispatched to evaluate and rectify the problem. Total reports no injuries or environmental damage.

The Al-Jurf field is a wellhead platform that produces to an anchored floating production storage and offloading vessel around three kilometers (1.8 miles) away in water depths of around nine meters (29 ft). Production capacity of the field is around 45,000 b/d. Mabruk Oil Operations is the operator of the field, and Total holds a 37.5 percent working interest.