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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Le Monde- Libya and Africa

"State of God" in 11 oil fields of Libya center

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Des combattants de "Fajr Libya" ("aube de la Libye"), le 13 octobre près de Tripoli.
Libyan National Oil Company (NOC) said Wednesday, March 4 "force majeure condition" in eleven oil fields of central Somalia, after the multiplication of attacks against oil sites in this region. The state of "force majeure", invoked in exceptional circumstances, allows an exemption from the responsibility of the NOC in case of non-compliance with the oil delivery contracts.
NOC spoke in a press attacks in recent days against particular fields of Al-Mabrouk and Al-Bahi, located 200 kilometers south of Sirte. After two days of fighting Islamist militiamen Tuesday took control.
"The state of force majeure" concerning Al-Mabrouk Al-Bahi, Al Dahra Al-Joufra, Tibesti, Al-Ghani al-Samah Al-Baida, Al Waha, Al-Dafa, Al-Naqa .The NOC also threatened to "close all ports and oil fields" of the country if security did not improve on the sites.

Two sites stopped for several weeks

Sites of Al-Mabrouk Al-Bahi and are stationary for several weeks because of the violence and idle operation of export terminals. The staff of the two sites was evacuated after a first attack in early February that killed at least eleven deaths. The latter, which had not been claimed, had already been allocated by the guards to radical Islamists.
Oil fields and ports and airports are targets of increasingly frequent civil war torn Libya, four years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. For several weeks, Libya was the scene of a series of attacks claimed or attributed to jihadist group Islamic State (EI), which controls swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq.The Libyan oil industry, formerly lucrative, was severely affected by the anarchy in the country. Before the revolt of 2011 that overthrew the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, production amounted to over 1.5 million barrels per day, representing 95% of exports and 75% of its revenues. She fell to around 350,000 barrels per day in December after the particular Islamist Libyan militias Aube coalition launched an offensive to seize oil terminals in eastern Libya. This attack, which caused fires in oil reservoirs at the Al-Sedra terminal, had been rejected by the army.
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