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Austrian and Vienna-headquartered integrated oil, gas and petrochemical company OMV Group will resume exploration activities in February 2024, the North African country’s state-run oil company National Oil Corporation (NOC) has announced on Monday November 6. The announcement came after both sides held a technical meeting in Tripoli Sunday at NOC headquarters. The discussions touched on […]
An explosion at nitrogen unit of well A55 in the Entissar field of the Zueitina Oil Company caused Thursday the death of a worker and injuries to another, Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced, Libya Observer reports. The casualty, the NOC indicated, was a worker from the Al-Nisr Company, which is carrying out work […]
The oil export terminals in eastern Libya are subject of fierce rivalry between the warring factions in Libya. The infantry brigades of General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) which entered the town of Zueitina on August 14 are likely to continue their advance to the oil terminals controlled by the rival militia of the […]
The long awaited opening of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf is finally over after the announcement by the rebels that the government could use it to “resume operations.” The two oil ports have a combined capacity of 560,000 barrels per day. The government has welcomed the move which is seen as a supporting gesture to […]
Tripoli has received another major blow after rebels in the eastern part of the country announced that they will not freeing the oil ports as promised last week. Ibrahim Jathran, autonomy leader of the eastern region, blamed the government for their move claiming that they rejected their proposed conditions. Tripoli has not reacted to the […]
Oil Minister Abdelbari al-Arusi has presented the serious situation that the government is faced with, since the lockdown of its oil ports by armed demonstrators a month ago. Production has fallen by almost 60% and the Minister described it as a “big difference.” Demonstrators have vacated some of the oil ports but exportations have not […]
Protesters who had subsequently disrupted operations at the oil port of Zueitina have returned again with claims that their demands for jobs have not been met, according to an engineer at the port. Loading of ships has been blocked and some oil fields prefer pumping water rather than oil to the port as a “precautionary […]
In a few days, operations will begin at the Zueitina oil terminal following the oil minister’s approval after protests by former rebels over social demands obliged it to halt. Abduladeem Shareed, security supervisor at the terminal said they have “received information from the administration saying that the organization has decided to restart operations and oil […]