Sharara

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced Wednesday the reinstatement of force majeure on crude oil loadings at Zawiya port commencing Tuesday, July 30, 2019. "This decision was prompted by a new illegal Sharara pipeline valve…

The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) has confirmed that 290.0000 bpd of oil production at the Sharara oil field is currently offline. "NOC teams are investigating a suspected closed valve/valves in the Hamada area." The NOC said…

The Fizzan Rage Movement in southern Libya has announced that its protesters have shut down Libya's largest oilfield "Sharara" and will shut down Al-Feel oilfield afterwards. The media spokesman for the movement Bashir Al-Sheikhi told…

Some 50 to 60 workers at Libya's largest oilfield, Sharara, wearing blue jumpsuits, appeared in a video demanding a salary hike of 67%, a figure that the government decided in 2013. The demands are the first sign of dissent at the…

Libya's National Oil Corporation says production is to resume within hours at the southwestern Sharara oil field after control was retaken from an armed group last month. The militia's blockade had cost the state oil company around $1.8…

After arriving in the UAE on Monday, the Chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanallah met with the Head of the Presidential Council Faye Al-Sirraj and agreed on reopening Sharara oilfield and lifting force majeure.…

The House of Representatives (HoR) Speaker Aquila Saleh has demanded that the Chairman of National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanallah, lift the force majeure declared in December at Sharara oilfield - the country's largest…

East-based Libyan self-styled army forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar said they had captured the closed Sharara oilfield on Wednesday. Haftar’s forces' spokesman Ahmed Al-Mismari called on state oil firm NOC to lift force majeure, a…

The National Oil Corporation (NOC) subsidiary Akakus has confirmed that Sharara oilfield sub-station B-6NC-186 has been attacked around 3 pm on Tuesday, November 20, 2018, by an armed group of eight men, adding that no employees were…

Libya’s giant Sharara oilfield is producing 260,000 barrels per day (bpd) after the restart of a control station that had been closed due to the kidnapping of two workers, an engineer at the field said on Wednesday. Station 186 was…

Production at Libya’s giant Sharara oil field is said to fall by at least 160,000 barrels per day (bpd) on Saturday after two staff were abducted in an attack by an unknown armed group, the National Oil Corporation (NOC) said. The…

Sources from Libya's Sharara oilfield said Saturday that four engineers, one of whom from Romania, were kidnapped and taken to an unknown place. The sources added that the engineers were abducted from their workplace by unknown armed…

A military plane crashed while taking off from Sharara oilfield in Libya leaving three killed including pilot. National Oil Cooperation said on its website following the tragic crash that the plane was a cargo c-130…

Foreign workers at Libya's Sharara oil field, which is currently shut, have been temporarily evacuated because of unspecified information about activity nearby, an engineer at the field said on Monday, Reuters reported. Sixteen…

Libya’s Al-Zawiya oil refinery, which is the largest operating plant in the country, was working at only half its capacity due to the shutdown at the Sharara oilfield, a source at the refinery told Reuters on Monday. The Al-Zawiya…