Libya’s Largest Oil Field Restarts After Armed Protesters Stormed Control Room

Libya’s largest oil field, Sharara, is resuming normal
operations after a brief shutdown caused by a militant attack on
the control room in the port city of Zawiya, where crude from
Sharara flows. Reuters had reported earlier, quoting an engineer
from the field’s staff, that the field would gradually shut down,
while Facebook posts by oil workers had suggested the reason for
the shutdown was militant activity. Sharara pumps about 270,000 bpd
and its restart last December has been key to Libya’s oil output
growth, which different…

Libya’s largest oil field, Sharara, is resuming normal
operations after a brief shutdown caused by a militant attack on
the control room in the port city of Zawiya, where crude from
Sharara flows. Reuters had reported earlier, quoting an engineer
from the field’s staff, that the field would gradually shut down,
while Facebook posts by oil workers had suggested the reason for
the shutdown was militant activity. Sharara pumps about 270,000 bpd
and its restart last December has been key to Libya’s oil output
growth, which different…