Country Report Libya

The Economist Intelligence Unit, May 2013, Pages: 25

The Zueitina facility, one of Libya's largest oil facilities, has been forced to close for at least two days by protesters following a dispute over jobs.

Men angry at their failure to get jobs at the plant blockaded the Zueitina oil facility, 870 km east of the capital, Tripoli, on May 15th. The plant is responsible for one‑fifth of Libya's oil output of some 1.6m barrels/day (b/d), and was forced to shut briefly in December 2012, after a similar protest took place near the terminal, hampering exports of crude and refined products.

Omar al-Shakmak, a representative of the Ministry of Oil and Gas, estimated the cost of the latest stoppage at US$1.3m a day, and there have not yet been reports of the plant reopening. The protesters are reportedly unhappy at their failure to gain positions at the facility, despite the plant management promising last year to open "hundreds" of posts.

Country Report Libya

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