Dec 3 thomwestcott

Oil production at 224,000 barrels a day, losses more than LD 8 billion

By Libya Herald staff.Tripoli, 3 December 2013:Libya is now producing 224,000 barrels of oil per day (b/d) with financial losses from strikes and prot...

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Nov 12 thomwestcott

Mellitah workers go on strike, warn of power cuts

By Ashraf Abdul Wahab.Tripoli, 12 November 2013:Workers at the Mellitah oil and gas complex are staging a 72-hour protest against the ongoing occupati...

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Latest shortage: Libyana top-up cards
Sep 6 thomwestcott

Latest shortage: Libyana top-up cards

By Seraj Essul and Aimen Eljali.Tripoli, 6 September, 2013:Top-up cards for Libyana, one of the state-owned mobile phone networks, are the latest esse...

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Oil sector workers protest outside Congress
Sep 2 thomwestcott

Oil sector workers protest outside Congress

By Ahmed Elumami.Tripoli, 2 September 2013:Over a hundred oil sector workers protested outside Congress today, demanding that the General National Con...

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Jul 17 thomwestcott

Protestors restart gas production in challenge to government power cut claims

Tripoli, 17 July 2013:Protestors at Zuetina Oil Company have challenged the government’s claims that they are responsible for the country’s recent pow...

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Jul 3 Michel Cousins

Oil disputes costing Libya $50 million a day: Congress Energy Committee Chairman

By Hadi Fornaji.Tripoli, 3 July, 2013:Libya is losing $50 million a day because of industrial action at oil sites according to the Chairman of the Gen...

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Jun 16 Sami Zaptia

Government warns of inability to meet budget commitments due to fall in oil production

By Sami Zaptia.Tripoli, 16 June 2013:The government has warned that due to the fall in oil and gas production and the resultant decline in the state’s...

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May 22 Michel Cousins

Blockade at giant Elephant oilfield "planned"

Tripoli, 22 May 2013:Guards at one of Libya’s biggest oil fields say they plan to mount a blockade as of Sunday in protest at non-payment of salary an...

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Fourth disruption to Zueitina export terminal over jobs demand
May 15 Nigel Ash

Fourth disruption to Zueitina export terminal over jobs demand

By Nigel Ash.Tripoli, 15 May 2013:For the fourth time since November, protestors have forced the closure of the Zueitina oil terminal, in an enduring...

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Strike-hit Libyan Airlines "suspends" bookings
Apr 11 Nigel Ash

Strike-hit Libyan Airlines "suspends" bookings

By Nigel AshTripoli, 11 April 2013:As a strike among its pilots and other staff enters its second week, Libyan Airlines today appeared to announce tha...

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