Refinery
Zawiya refinery — conflict-related storage-tank fires
15 December 2024
Zawiya, Libya
What happened
Armed clashes between rival Libyan militia factions near the 120,000 bbl/d Zawiya refinery — Libya's largest operational refinery — severely damaged several fuel storage tanks with gunfire in the early morning, sparking fires that security and safety personnel brought under control. Libya's National Oil Corporation declared force majeure and its highest-level emergency, warning of a significant impact on the refinery's storage capacity and crude exports. This is conflict-related damage to energy infrastructure rather than a targeted attack on the refinery itself or an industrial accident.
- Evidence
- Documented
- Confidence
- High
- Infrastructure
- Refinery
- Latitude
- 32.7600°
- Longitude
- 12.7300°
Attribution
Responsibility has not been established in the cited reporting.