THE Libya National Oil Company (NOC) announced yesterday Sunday the suspension of production in large oil field in the south-west of the country, where citizens prevent workers from entering the premises, with background the new political chaos.
“On Saturday, April 16, 2022 at 18:30 a group of people repeatedly tried to forcefully stop production at the Al Phil oil field, preventing workers from entering,” the SPC said in a press release issued Sunday, without specifying who citizens and what are their motivations.
Workers at the terminal at Port of Zueitina stated that these are protesters demanding his resignation Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbaiba.
The production “stopped completely (yesterday) Sunday”, making it “impossible to comply with the contractual obligations of the company” and the SPC declared “until further notice” a state of force majeure, which prevents the deliveries of crude to the complex Melitaon the coast, near the border with Tunisia.
The declaration of a state of force majeure allows the disclaimer to be disclaimed in the event of a breach of its obligations regarding the supply of crude oil.
The Al Fil depositin the Morzuk Basin, 750 km southwest of the capital Tripoliis managed by the consortium Mellitah Oil & Gas of SPD and the Italian ENI.
They are mined somewhere from the deposit 70,000 barrels per dayof the estimated total production of 1.2 million barrels per day on average in Libya, which, however, varies greatly, depending on the tensions in the country.
Libya, the country with largest oil fields in Africafinds it difficult to turn the page on the chaos that has lasted for more than a decade since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011.
The closure of the facility was recorded the day after the announcement Libya’s “group of citizens of the south” how it stopped production in Al Phil “as long as the government named by the parliament does not take office in the capital”, according to the Libyan news agency LANA.
The North African country has sunk again into major political crisiswith two rival prime ministers vying for power.
In February, the parliament, based in the eastern part of the country, named former Prime Minister Fati Basagabut the government in Tripoli under Abdelhamid Dbaiba refuses to relinquish power, sparking an institutional crisis that threatens to rekindle the civil war.
The protesters are demanding, in addition to the departure of Prime Minister Dbaiba, the expulsion of the head of the SPC, Mustafa Sanalabecause it transfers the revenues from the sales of crude oil to the government of Tripoli.
The Treasury Department announced last week that the SPD had transferred $ 6 billion from oil sales to its account at the North African country’s central bank.
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