Wintershall Libya production restart held back by infrastructure

STAVANGER, Norway (Bloomberg) -- Wintershall AG, the oil and gas unit of German chemical group BASF SE, said a lack of infrastructure is the only thing holding it back from resuming onshore oil production at full capacity in Libya. “We’re ready to start production almost any day,” Martin Bachmann, Wintershall’s executive director for exploration and production, told reporters Aug. 27 in Stavanger, on Norway’s west coast. “What we lack is the export infrastructure. One day it’s the harbors which are occupied; when they’re open, the pipelines aren’t available.”

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