Libya's National Oil Corp. declared force majeure at the Sharara oil field, the country's largest, on Jan. 7 after protesters shut the field, forcing supplies to be halted from the field to the Zawiya export terminal. Register NowTalks are underway to restart production as soon as possible, the NOC said on X, formerly Twitter. The nearby 70,000 b/d El-Feel was also shut last week but the NOC statement did not include an update on that field. One source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Jan. 3 that Sharara -- operated by a joint venture between Libya's NOC, Equinor, OMV, Repsol and TotalEnergies – would be forced to stop pumping when its storage tanks filled. Libya's oil output still remains well below the 1.6 million b/d it was producing before a 2011 uprising in the country.
