Jan 28 (Reuters) – Libya’s main oil refinery, Ras Lanuf, remained offline on Monday due a workers’ strike, after the 220,000 barrels per day plant was shut down last week due to a technical fault, traders said. A note was sent to clients in the afternoon to say that employees [...]

By Jessica Donati and Marie-Louise Gumuchian (Reuters) – Libya will not reveal the details of its oil sales this year, National Oil Corporation (NOC) officials told Reuters this week, stepping back from pledges to deliver greater transparency after the corruption of the pre-revolutionary regime. Oil producers commonly keep the details [...]

By Ali Tarhouni Two years ago, I was the son of a broken nation. For almost 40 years, I fought to bring freedom and basic human rights to Libya, only to see the regime of Muammar Qaddafi gain acceptance into the international community as the oppression continued. I despaired of [...]

(Reuters) – Libya is beefing up security around its oil and gas installations in the western and southern areas bordering Algeria, following this week’s attack on an Algerian desert gas complex, a statement from the oil protection force said. “Due to the events in the region, the Petroleum Faculty Guard [...]

‘Cargo’ trawler was kept under arrest at Khoms over suspicions of fuel smuggling – witness By Matthew Vella A fishing trawler that was converted into a cargo boat was suspected of smuggling contraband marine diesel oil, when Libyan rebel militias were called in to place the vessel under arrest. The [...]

By Gilles Castonguay Italian energy company Eni SpA (ENI.MI) Sunday said it planned to invest $8 billion in Libya over the next 10 years to develop its production activities as well as conduct more exploration in the north African country. Eni made the announcement after its chief executive, Paolo Scaroni, [...]

By Mark Micallef The Prime Minister has expressed hope that Malta would reach an energy agreement with Libya with a view to secure oil purchases from the North African state. He was addressing a news conference at the Radisson in Tripoli following a meeting with Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan, [...]

* Ministry proposes creation of two separate bodies in Tripoli and Benghazi * Exploration and production would be separated from refining By Marie-Louise Gumuchian TRIPOLI, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Libya’s oil ministry is proposing to separate the OPEC member’s exploration and production activities from refining, shaking up the running of [...]

France said on Monday it was ready to start releasing almost $2 billion in frozen assets belonging to Libya’s sovereign wealth fund, as it looks to secure investment from the oil-producing nation. France’s Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius made the announcement during a visit to Tripoli, the latest in a series [...]

Two French ministers were en route to Libya Monday to discuss a possible Libyan takeover of a troubled French oil refinery, dpa reported. The French Foreign Ministry said the visit by Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and his counterpart in charge of industry, Productive Recovery Minister Arnaud Montebourg, aimed to show [...]

* Says protests caused brief outage at El-Sharara field * Aims for 2.2 mln bpd output within five years * Libya to increase refining capacity, look for shale gas (Adds detail on refining capacity) By Emma Farge VIENNA, Nov 7 (Reuters) – Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) aims to boost [...]

At first glance of the television screen, it looks to me like a normal scene from a Middle Eastern open air market or souk. But I pause, look more closely and it is anything but normal. You see Libyans lining up from Benghazi to Tripoli to turn in rifles, pistols, [...]

The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Sunday that the country’s oil and gas revenues for the year 2012 total $54.9 billion. According to a press release by NOC, the revenues are calculated according to an average daily oil production at 1.350 million barrels per day at a price [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Libya’s largest oil refinery, Ras Lanuf, has resumed operating after shutting during the uprising that ousted Muammar Gaddafi last year, traders said on Friday. The refinery, which accounts for well over half of the country’s oil processing capacity, was offering two cargoes of jet fuel for loading [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – Libya’s largest refinery, Ras Lanuf, will restart by August 28, according to a senior National Oil Corporation (NOC) official, after months of delays that freed up additional volumes of crude oil for export and weighed on markets for light, sweet grades. The prolonged outage at Ras Lanuf, which [...]