Negotiations To End Es Sider Sit-in Underway
Libya’s biggest oil export terminal, Es Sider, remains shut after closing on July 28 amid protests by staff and armed guards, Ibrahim Al Awami, director of the inspection and measurement department of...
View ArticleLargest Oil Export Terminals Closed Again
Striking security guards have again stopped loadings at Libya’s two largest crude oil export terminals, Es Sider and Ras Lanuf,reports Reuters. The Es Sider terminal is operated by the Waha Oil...
View ArticleLibyan Oil Fields Increasing Supplies
According to Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, Libya is currently producing between 600,000 and 700,000 barrels of oil per day after striking workers, militias and political activists slowed the country’s oil...
View ArticleConocoPhillips Output Hit by Libya Shutdown
ConocoPhillips has reported that its production from continuing operations for the third quarter of 2013 was 1,470 MBOED, flat compared with the third quarter of 2012; this was primarily due to new...
View ArticleNavy Blocks Oil Tanker at Es-Sider
Libyan officials said on Monday that that navy has blocked an oil tanker from illegally loading crude from the eastern port of Es-Sider, which has been held for months by armed protesters demanding...
View ArticleZueitina and Hariga Ports Re-Opened
An agreement on reopening the Zueitina and Marsa al-Hariga oil ports was signed in Zueitina on Sunday, with the ports of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider due to reopen in the next two to four weeks. According to...
View ArticleEs Sider Oil Port may Reopen in Aug
The oil port of Es Sider, may reopen in August after the new Parliament takes office, reports Business Times. A spokesman for the Executive Office for Barqa, the rebel group that shut the facility...
View ArticleLibya Reopens Terminals, Increases Oil Exports
Libya’s state-run National Oil Corporation (NOC) lifted the force majeure on the oil ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf on Sunday, after rebels handed the ports over last week. A spokesperson for the NOC...
View ArticleWaha Producing 91,000 bpd
The Waha Oil Company is producing around 91,000 barrels per day (bpd), a company spokesman has told Reuters. The oil grade will be exported through the Es Sider terminal, the country’s largest export...
View ArticleForce Majeure at 2 Oil Ports
The National Oil Corporation (NOC) has declared force majeure at the ports of Es Sider and Ras Lanuf and will halt output at some oil fields because of fighting. According to a report from Bloomberg,...
View ArticleVideo: Clashes Force Oil Port Closure
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Libya Business News. Libya’s eastern Es Sider oil export port has stopped working due to...
View ArticleEs Sider Oil Fire Extinguished
Fires at seven storage tanks at the Es Sider oil terminal have finally been put out, officials said on Friday. A rocket fired on 25th December by the Islamist-backed Libya Dawn set off the first fire,...
View ArticleOil Production Recovering
The head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) has said that oil production is now running at between 300,000 bpd and 500,000 bpd for the country as a whole. Mabrook Buseif, who was appointed by the...
View ArticleNavy Blocks Oil Tanker at Es-Sider
Libyan officials said on Monday that that navy has blocked an oil tanker from illegally loading crude from the eastern port of Es-Sider, which has been held for months by armed protesters demanding...
View ArticleOil Production Recovering
The head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) has said that oil production is now running at between 300,000 bpd and 500,000 bpd for the country as a whole. Mabrook Buseif, who was appointed by the...
View ArticleTwo Biggest Oil Ports to Open Soon
The head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Tobruk, Elmabruk Bosaif, has told Reuters that Libya’s two biggest oil ports, Ras Lanuf and Es Sider, will be able to open once security checks are...
View ArticleOil Prod’n at 350-400,000 bpd
Reuters reports that Libya is currently producing between 350,000 and 400,000 barrels of oil per day. Naji al-Maghrabi [Nagi Elmagrabi], the chairman of National Oil Corporation (NOC) loyal to the...
View ArticleIS Attacks Libya Oil Port
Reuters reports that militants from the Islamic State group (IS, ISIL, ISIS) have attacked forces guarding the Es Sider oil port on Thursday. A gate at the port, which is controlled by forces loyal to...
View ArticleShipping at Risk of ‘Collateral Damage’
IHS Country Risk has reported an elevated risk of collateral damage to shipping using the Libyan ports of Es Sider (As Sidra) and Ras Lanuf. Following the attack by the Islamic State group (IS, ISIS,...
View ArticleEs Sider Oil Port Attacked by IS
Fighters from the Islamic State group (IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) have clashed with members of the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG), at the oil port of Es Sider [Sidra], killing two. The militants are said...
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