What happened

Personnel from Libya's Petroleum Facilities Guard in the southwest, together with an armed group, closed Valve No. 7 on the Sharara crude-oil pipeline in the Hamada area. Libya's National Oil Corporation said the action halted crude flow from the Akakus-operated Sharara field to Zawiya and caused an approximately 130,000-barrel-per-day production loss. NOC said it was preparing to declare force majeure if the valve was not reopened, but its 22 September statement did not say that force majeure had yet been declared. The marker is approximate because the public statement did not publish coordinates for Valve No. 7. This is separate from the Zawiya refinery access blockade and from the March 2026 leak and fire on the same export system.

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