Category: North Africa

Libya has closed all its oil loading terminals due to bad weather, and soon-to-be-full storage tanks will lead to a shut-in of 150,000 bpd, or half of the oil production Continue Reading

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Several eastern Libyan oil ports including Es Sider and Ras Lanuf have closed due to bad weather, a port engineer said on Wednesday. A tanker had Continue Reading

Four Libyan oil export ports that were closed last week because of bad weather have reopened, a Libyan shipping source and port engineers said on Sunday. Tankers were docking at Continue Reading

The year is not yet over, but Libya’s crude oil exports to China in value terms are already worth twice as much as what the North African country exported to Continue Reading

Several crude oil terminals in Libya have been closed due to inclement weather, with oil production in the country already down by 150,000 bpd and likely to drop by a Continue Reading

Algeria’s state oil and gas company has pulled out of Libya citing deteriorating security conditions, Libyan media report , adding the company had first evacuated its personnel from its neighbor Continue Reading

Libyan crude will soon be making the long journey to a refinery in New Zealand in a rare export route for the North African country’s oil, which usually finds homes Continue Reading

When last week news broke that Libya’s UN-recognized government and the eastern rival government might just be willing to settle their differences and hold elections early next year, its significance Continue Reading

Libya’s National Oil Corporation will soon resume the Phase 2 development of the Bahr Essalam field—the largest producing offshore gas deposit in the country—and by the end of the year, Continue Reading

Libya has restarted the eastern al-Bayda oilfield, a field engineer said late on Tuesday, the latest operation in the so-called Oil Crescent region to resume work after heavy fighting in Continue Reading