1196 results found for 'Libya'

1196 results found for 'Libya'
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  • Saipem getting an assist from ABL at gas project offshore Africa

    4 February 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Project & Tenders

    ABL, part of Oslo-listed energy and marine consultancy ABL Group, has been hired to support Saipem, an Italian engineering, drilling, and construction services giant, with the development of a natural gas project off the coast of Libya, North Africa.

  • SBM Offshore bids welcome to its ninth FPSO in Brazilian waters (Gallery)

    11 March 2025
    Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production

    SBM Offshore has corroborated the arrival of a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel to the pre-salt layer of the Santos Basin, which will be the fifth addition to Petrobras’ huge oil field off the coast of Brazil once it flows its first oil later this year.

  • Oil field’s production ramp-up on the horizon as Petrobras welcomes new FPSO

    6 March 2025
    Business Developments & Projects, Vessels

    Brazil’s state-owned oil and gas giant Petrobras has welcomed a floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) vessel owned by the Netherlands-based SBM Offshore destined to work at one of its fields in the country’s pre-salt Santos Basin.

  • WilForce stays in Libya

    12 August 2008

    Awilco Offshore has received a Letter of Intent for the use of its WilForce jack-up drilling rig for operations offshore Libya. The US $36.5 million deal would see the rig drilling two firm wells with the option for one further well. The firm period of the contract is 180 days. Operations are scheduled to start […]

  • NOC, IOC Experts to Speak at 2nd Libya Forum

    31 July 2013

    Leaders from the global oil and gas industry and NOC Libya are confirmed to speak at the 2nd Libya Forum taking place 16-18 June 2013 at the Cortinthia Hotel, Tripoli, Libya. Decision makers from NOC Libya include, H.E. Abdelbari Al-Arusi, Minister of Oil & Gas, Libya, and Dr Nurri Berruein, Chairman of NOC Libya, who […]

  • Libya Closes Tobruk Port

    18 October 2017

    The Libyan Ministry of Transport has decided to close the Port of Tobruk. As explained, the port will be closed with immediate effect for import and export activities. Shipments from/to Libya will be regularly accepted for the following ports: Al Khums, Benghazi, Misurata and Tripoli. The closure follows the order of the head of the […]

  • Libya’s Port of Benghazi Reopens

    3 October 2017

    After a three-year-long closure due to the military conflict in the country, Libya’s Port of Benghazi reopened on October 1, 2017. The port opening was marked with the arrival of an oil tanker from Tobruk with Abdullah al-Thinni, the Prime Minister of a government based in the east, on board the ship, Reuters reported. The […]

  • Russian Tanker Captured in Libya

    17 September 2015

    A Russian-flagged oil tanker has been seized by military forces pertaining to rival government in Libya as the ship’s crew reportedly tried to smuggle oil from the port of Zawara. “A Russian-flagged oil tanker was captured this afternoon when it tried to smuggle oil off Zawara,“ Twafik Alskir, a senior official with Tripoli-allied naval forces […]

  • Russian Tanker Captured in Libya

    17 September 2015

    A Russian-flagged oil tanker has been seized by military forces pertaining to rival government in Libya as the ship’s crew reportedly tried to smuggle oil from the port of Zawara. “A Russian-flagged oil tanker was captured this afternoon when it tried to smuggle oil off Zawara,“ Twafik Alskir, a senior official with Tripoli-allied naval forces […]

  • Statoil: Shooting seismic in Libya

    20 March 2007

    Operator Statoil is preparing to shoot seismic in Libya. During the year, around 2,000 kilometres of 2D seismic will be gathered from the Kufra licence in the south-east of the country.

  • Total Spuds Exploration Well Offshore Libya

    14 January 2014

    After 780 miles long tow from Croatia, CROSCO’s semi-submersible drilling rig Zagreb-1 was positioned and anchored on December 14th, 2013 at the offshore location A1-16/3, 128 km northwest from Tripoli, Libya. Spud in was successfully performed in the morning hours on December 30th, 2013. As per signed contract with Total E&P Libye (TEPL), Zagreb-1 rig […]

  • Turkish Tanker Seized in Libya

    3 March 2017
    Business & Finance

    Turkey-flagged chemical tanker Haci Telli was seized by Libyan militants after it enter the country’s port of Zuwarah on February 24, according to local media. The 2,800 dwt Haci Telli, operated by Turkish shipowner Transpasifik, was allegedly arrested due to the operator’s outstanding debt of USD 433,000 for earlier purchased oil from Zuwarah. Media reports indicate […]

  • NOC Libya Priorities and Visions Presented

    2 September 2013
    Business & Finance

    In an exclusive interview with CWC Group ahead of the 2nd Libya Forum taking place 16 – 18 September 2013 in Tripoli, NOC Libya Chairman Dr Nurri Berruein set out the organisations priorities for the next year and vision for the medium to long term. He said: “[Over the next year] our priorities are securing […]

  • USCG Imposing Conditions on Ships Arriving from Libya

    15 April 2015

    The US Coast Guard is imposing conditions of entry on vessels arriving in the United States after having called at any port in Libya during their last five port calls, effective April 24, the US Department of Homeland Security said in a notice. The Coast Guard does not find ports in Libya maintaining effective anti-terrorism measures and finds that […]

  • Morning Glory Arrives to Tripoli (Libya)

    24 March 2014
    Business & Finance

    Tanker ship  Morning Glory arrived in Tripoli on March 22, 2014., after U.S. naval forces handed it over to the Libyan naval authorities in international waters just outside of the territorial water line, Reuters reports. The U.S. Navy’s USS Elrod relieved the USS Stout of its escort duties for the Morning Glory tanker ship on […]

  • First Tanker Unloads at Libya’s Derna Port after Bombing

    7 May 2015
    Business & Finance

    The eastern Port of Derna has welcomed the first tanker since the bombing of a Greek-owned tanker by Libyan military forces back in January, the National Oil Corporation of Libya  informed. Namely, a Maltese-flagged tanker Naftilos delivered a cargo of heavy fuel to Derna’s power plant a week ago, signaling to the oil market that the security […]

  • 20 Migrants Drown off Libya

    30 July 2014

    Over twenty migrants have died, with dozens more still missing after their makeshift boat sank off Libya, the Libyan Navy reported.   “A navy patrol on Monday rescued 22 clandestine migrants who were clinging to debris from their boat,” spokesman Colonel Ayoub Kassem told AFP. Surviving migrants reported around 150 people had been crammed aboard […]

  • Greek Tanker Seized in Libya

    29 August 2017
    Business & Finance

    Greek-owned small clean tanker Levante has been seized by Libyan authorities on the grounds of suspected oil smuggling off the Abu Kammash area west of Tripoli, Reuters reports citing a naval official. According to navy spokesman Ayoub Qassem, the Liberian-flagged ship and its 20 crew members, predominantly of Philippine nationality, were detained on Monday as they are […]

  • Another Tanker Seized in Libya amid Gas Smuggling Claims

    15 February 2016

    Another international tanker got caught up in a dispute between the two opposing governments in Libya over alleged oil and gas smuggling. Namely, a Sierra-Leone flagged oil tanker, identified as the Captain Khayyam, was seized by the Libyan authorities under suspicion of illegally entering Libyan waters with the aim of smuggling gasoline, Reuters reports citing […]

  • BP Back to Exploration in Libya

    30 May 2012
    Business & Finance

    BP has lifted Force Majeure in respect of its Libyan Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) with the National Oil Corporation (NOC) effective 15th May 2012. Force Majeure has been in place since 21st February 2011. Discussions between NOC and BP have agreed how the impact of Force Majeure will be mitigated in BP’s existing […]

  • Libya-Bound Oil Tankers Facing Arrest

    9 July 2015

    Panama-flagged oil tanker Trident Hope and Greece-flagged crude oil tanker Minerva Alexandra, which are bound for Libya’s Ras Lanuf port, are facing arrest, according to the Petroleum Facilities Guard, the Libyan Army unit tasked with the protection of Libya’s oil facilities. Namely, the Guard said that it would impound any vessel that arrives there to load oil or […]

  • First Oil Discovery in Libya

    26 July 2006

    Total (operator, 100%) announces an oil discovery in Block NC 191 in southwestern Libya, around 800 kilometres south of Tripoli. This is the first find in the block, located in the southern Murzuq Basin and awarded to Total in March 2001. Drilled to a total depth of 1,735 metres, the D1 well tested at 675 […]

  • Libya’s NOC to Open More Ports Following Strikes

    17 June 2015
    Business & Finance

    The National Oil Company (NOC) of Libya has revealed plans to open more ports during the coming month of Ramadhan that were closed following strikes by local workers and tribal militias demanding jobs and better pay. The move comes as NOC aims to increase Libya’s output to 600,000 barrels per day. The El Sharara and El Feel […]

  • Eni, Libya Discuss Gas Supply to Italy

    12 March 2013

      Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan, Libyan Minister of Petroleum Abdelbari al Arusi, National Oil Company Chairman Nuri Balrwin and Eni’s CEO Paolo Scaroni met in Tripoli to discuss Eni’s activities in the country and gas supplies to Italy. “During the meeting, which was held in a cordial atmosphere, the parties shared the restart of […]

  • UAE Halts Libya-Bound Shipments

    17 September 2014
    Business & Finance

    Amid growing security issues spurred by the crisis in Libya, U.A.E. port authorities issued instructions to cease loading containers for export and transshipment bound for Libyan ports, effective immediately, Danish-headquartered shipping company Safmarine said. “As advised by the port authorities, containers bound for Libya will be held at the port and will not be loaded on the […]