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Arabian Gulf Oil Company
The Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO) is based in Benghazi, Libya, engaged in crude oil and natural gas exploration, production and refining. It’s a subsidiary of state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC). AGOCO around 6000 employees, more than 99% of them are nationals, distributed over its different locations.
AGOCO’S roots go back to 1971 when the Arabian Gulf Exploration Company (AGECO) was established, following the implementation of Law No. 115, nationalizing shares held by British Petroleum (BP). AGOCO was reformed by NOC in late 1979 to take over the assets of a partnership of BP and Nelson Bunker Hunt of the United States, and a partnership of Chevron and Texaco called Amoseas.
AGOCO has upstream operations in eight oil fields including the Messla Oil Fields and also operates one crude oil terminal in Tobruk. In order to be able to determine the minimum permissible flow velocity of well fluid (oil, water and natural gas mix) in 6” pipes with reliability, accuracy and repeatability, AGOCO chose ABLE’s Magnetrol Thermal Dispersion Switches. The operator required full confidence that the Model TD2 would switch at a minimum flow velocity of 0.055 m/s.