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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oil workers at Sharara, the largest field in Libya which has recently re-opened after a three-month hiatus, have demanded a salary increase of 67 percent as they try to return oil production at ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...