10.09.2013
- The crisis committee tasked with resolving Libya's oil paralysis will brief the 200-member General National Congress by Wednesday with proposals on how to end the confrontation...
12.05.2013
- British oil company BP said it is withdrawing some non-essential staff from Libya after Britain's government warned about deteriorating security in the capital Tripoli. "We are...
06.11.2012
- Dubai-based NetOil, led by Middle Eastern businessman Roger Tamraz, has submitted a new offer to take over France's oldest refinery, unveiling a last minute deal with British oil...
25.10.2012
- Libyan oil and demand for pesticides will help Germany's BASF meet its target of higher operating profit this year, offsetting a downturn in its main industrial chemicals and...
20.06.2011
- Libya's rebel oil chief accused the West on Saturday of failing to keep up its promises to deliver urgent financial aid, saying his authority had now run out of cash completely...
11.03.2011
- The United States believed in 2009 that Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam was taking part of the output of an oil field run by France's Total, according to a diplomatic cable...
03.03.2011
- As fighting continues across Libya, the oil industry is trying to assess the output lost from Africa's third-largest producer. Most estimates suggest around half of the country's 1...
14.07.2010
- Two people were killed and two others injured in a fire at a Libyan fertiliser complex in which Norway's Yara International holds a 50% stake, Yara and Libyan state energy firm NOC...