By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Oct. 26 -- Italy's ENI SPA and Libya's National Oil Co. have inaugurated a trans-Mediterranean pipeline central to the Western Libya Gas Project (WLGP).
The 520-km, 32-in. pipeline, called Greenstream, connects Mellitah, Libya, with Gala, Sicily, extending under water as deep as 1,127 m.
The 7-billion-euro WLGP will move gas and condensate from Wafa field in the desert near the Algerian border and Bahr Essalam field 110 km offshore to a new processing plant at Mellitah. The Bahr Essalam platform is called Sabratha.
At full capacity, Wafa will be able to produce 4 billion cu m/year of gas. Two 530-km pipelines, with diameters of 16 in. and 32 in., extend from the field to Mellitah.
Bahr Essalam will be able to produce as much as 6 billion cu m/year. The subsea pipelines serving it have diameters of 10 in. and 36 in.
Libya will use 2 billion cu m/year of WLGP gas. The rest will move to Italy.
