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IS Tuesday carried out a second day offensive on Libya’s vital oil terminals prompting national oil company to call for help saying IS’s control of the oil region will cause fall of the Libyan state. The Jihadist group pushed further Tuesday on the Libya’s coastal region housing the country’s vital oil terminals. The terrorist group […]
17 countries including UN Security Council, EU, African Union, Arab League Sunday in Rome pledged full support to the UN-proposed Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA) and urged Libya political sides to anoint the National Dialogue Agreement on Wednesday as they indicated themselves last week in Tunis. “We fully recognize and support the Libya Political […]
Forces loyal to Tobruk have attacked a ship along the Libyan coast claiming that it had received information that it was allegedly bringing fuel for ISIS in Libya. The attack took place off the coast of Sirte and Saqr al-Joroushi, the head of the Tobruk air force, said the ship was carrying “mercenaries, weapons and […]
Protests at the port of Brega, eastern Libya, came to an end on Sunday after authorities reached a deal with the protesters thereby paving the way for operations to begin. The protests forced production at the Irda natural gas field to stop and last week, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) warned that nearby Sahel gas […]
Libya is on the verge of becoming a failed state if the war in the country does not come to an end and attacks on oil installations are not halted. Mashala Zwai, the oil minister of the Tripoli-based government warned that the country was becoming “a second Somalia” as fighting between the militias of the […]
The Tobruk-based government has requested the U.N. Security Council’s authorization to import military equipment from Ukraine, Serbia and the Czech Republic, arguing that the weapons will help control Libya’s borders and fight the Islamic State militants and other extremists in the country. Libya has been under an arms embargo since 2011 and all military shipments […]
Fighting for the control of eastern oil ports have broken out after Fajr Libya launched an operation to “liberate oilfields and terminals.” Last week, President Al Thinni of the Tobruk government said means are being developed to ensure that the payment of oil exportations to accounts that are not under their control be stopped. Fighting […]
As the stand-off in Libya between the two governments continues, Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni of the internationally recognized Tobruk government is planning to approach it with a financial perspective. He wants to stop the payment of oil exportations to accounts that are not under its control in order to drain the financial power of the […]
Oil exportation has begun at the Es Sider port, Libya’s biggest oil port, after being closed for a long time. The spokesman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mohamed El Harari, confirmed that the loading of 600,000 barrels of oil onto a tanker. Libya is still below the 1,4million barrels per day exportation it reached […]
Libya is drafting a law aimed at making its oil industry more attractive to foreign investors. Most of the investors left the North African country when the war got intense between Gadhafi’s army and the rebels. Libya has one of the largest oil reserves in the world but political tensions have made it a high […]