Port or tanker
Libya oil terminal and oilfield shutdowns
August 2024
Es Sider terminal, Libya
What happened
Rival Tripoli- and Benghazi-aligned factions shut down oilfields and export terminals nationwide amid a dispute over control of Libya's central bank, taking more than half of national output offline for weeks. This was factional infrastructure leverage rather than a militant attack.
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- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Port or tanker
- Latitude
- 30.6300°
- Longitude
- 18.3600°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.