Malta barred entry to a tanker containing the first oil cargo shipped by the government in eastern Libya since the country with Africa’s biggest crude reserves split into competing power centers in its east and west.
Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) said the country's eastern government attempted to export 650,000 barrels of oil, but that workers at the Marsa el-Hariga terminal had refused to load the shipment.
The Head of a UN-brokered Libyan unity government, Fayez Serraj, and six members of the Presidential Council arrived in the capital by sea end of March to set up a temporary seat of power in a naval base despite thre ...
Suspected Islamic State militants staged an attack on a power and water plant about 80km from the major Sarir oil field in eastern Libya. More than 50% of Libya's remaining oil production comes from Sarir region.
Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) stated that country's total oil production had recently decreased to between 360,000 and 370,000b/d due to the ongoing attacks conducted by Islamic State on Libya's oil infrastr ...
Libya's National Oil Company (NOC) announced a decline in oil production to the level of up to 370,000b/d, down from 400,000b/d recorded at the beginning of 2016.
Libya's Coast Guard has intercepted a tanker suspected of involvement in fuel smuggling operations while in waters off the country's western region and headed for Malta.
Libya’s national oil company has warned shipowners of unauthorized attempts by rival factions to export crude, in further evidence of the power struggle between east and west over oil revenues.
Another Libyan pipeline south of the Zueitina port leading from oilfields to an export terminal was recently damaged in an attack and is being repaired. It was not clear who carried out the attack, but Islamic State ...
Libya’s Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG), a 27,000 strong body tasked with protecting Libya’s oil facilities, has become the “biggest obstacle to raising money from the industry and a hindrance to forming a unified g ...