Project Profile
Value: $3,000 Million
Startup Year: 2014
Production: 20,000 bbl/day (36,000 and 40,000 barrels a day by 2016)
Location: blocks 433a and 416b, Oued Mya basin, 800 km south of Algiers, Algeria
Reserves: unknown
The Bir Seba oilfield is located in Blocks 433a and 416b in the Oued Mya basin, 800 km south of Algiers. Construction of an oil processing centre with a capacity of 20,000 barrels per day, a compressing plant to transfer fuel from the Bir Seba oil field to Hassi Messaoud city with a daily capacity of 1 million cubic metres, two 130km oil pipelines, a water separating plant and a power plant at the oil field. The total output from the Bir Seba field is expected to reach 20,000 barrels of oil a day by 2014 and between 36,000 and 40,000 barrels a day by 2016.
Operators:
Sonatrach
Petrovietnam Investment and Development
PTTEP Algeria Company Limited (PTTEP AG)
Contractors:
PetroVietnam
JGC (Japan Gasoline Corporation)
PTT Public Company Limited