Libya’s Waha oil fields have had work carried out on them to maintain the production and service facilities after they were offline for more than seven months due to an oil blockade, senior oil officials said Aug. 10, according to S&P Global Platts, provider of energy and commodities information.

The Waha oil fields in the Sirte Basin make up about a third of Libyan crude oil production, with the capacity to pump around 350,000 b/d.

The repairs at Waha were being carried out to reduce the risk of the sudden stoppages at the fields which were caused due to the force majeure, which is in place at Libya’s key eastern oil terminals.

“This work will help speed up the production processes upon full operation and spare these strategic facilities any technical obstacles due to complete paralysis of work and declaring the state of force majeure,” said Abd Al-Salam Mansour, head of production department at the Waha oil fields.