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 CROATIA
Southern Europe
Oil production from the former Yugoslavian states of
Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia and Slovenia is, like much of the rest of
onshore Europe, well past peak.
Croatia has gas prospects in the Adriatic having failed
to find substantial oil reserves despite increased drilling rates since
independence. The country started gas production from reservoirs similar
to those of the Po Valley in Italy in 2000.
 Agip and the Croatian Energy Company (INA) began
producing gas from the Ivana A platform. The Ivana field lies 40 km west
of Pola in 43m of water and began producing at 0.7 mm cubic metres per
day from five wells. Output plateaued at 1.8 mm cubic metres per day in
2001 with the addition of four satellite platforms.
The gas is moved through a 67 km pipeline to the
Garibaldi K platform in the Italian Adriatic Sea off Ravenna, where it
is compressed and sent to ENI’s Casalborsetti treatment plant.
In the south of Croatia fractured basinal carbonate
reservoir rocks, similar to those of oil fields in both Albania and in
the southern Apennines of Italy, are expected but limited drilling in
the last few years has failed to locate commercial fields.
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