By Aidan Lewis SHARARA OIL FIELD, Libya (Reuters) - When the head of Libya's state energy company visited Sharara oil field in early July, community leaders and workers crowded into a conference ...

Libya’s Biggest Oil Field Halted by Workers’ Protest. Sharara was pumping 270,000 barrels a day before shutdown; Country is exempt from OPEC output cuts due to internal strife ...

As Libya wrangles over who is going to control its oil, the Islamic State is closing in, using sporadic attacks designed to rattle nerves and force oil-field evacuations or worker strikes out of fear.

Oil company workers in Benghazi, eastern Libya, will join a strike of civil servants and private companies on Tuesday to protest against a deteriorating security situation in the port city, an oil ...

TRIPOLI/LONDON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Libya's struggle with oil exports disruption intensified on Tuesday with clashes at one port and moves to head off attempts by strikers to sell oil themselves at ...

Rebels and Gadhafi loyalists fought pitched battles, but Libyan staff stayed on the job, occupying key oil installations 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in a move to discourage wanton destruction.

Since July, Libyan oil fields and terminals have been shut down by striking workers upset over low pay and corruption, NPR reports. Before the strikes, Libya was capable of producing 1.5 million ...

Libya’s oil production has plunged by almost a quarter after workers shut the OPEC country’s biggest field to protest lack of medical care following the death of a colleague, a person familiar ...

TUNIS (Reuters) - Fourteen Tunisian workers were kidnapped as they traveled to work at an oil refinery in western Libya, a human rights activist said on Friday. They were abducted by members of a ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An official close to Algeria's state oil giant Sonatrach says authorities have decided to evacuate the company's employees from Libya due to the deteriorating security ...

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Unidentified assailants abducted workers at a facility belonging to Libya's largest oil field, hampering daily production there, Libya's national oil company said Saturday.

SHARARA OIL FIELD, Libya (Reuters) - When the head of Libya's state energy company visited Sharara oil field in early July, community leaders and workers crowded into a conference room to ask ...