Libya's National Oil Corporation said on the 11th it may declare force majeure and fully suspend operations at the Zawiya refinery if drone attacks on the western Zawiya oil complex continue. The latest strike hit a blending and filling plant run by Zawiya Refining Company, with a drone crashing near a major storage tank and pipeline network; NOC reported no casualties or damage so far. NOC said this was the third drone attack on Zawiya facilities on the 9th–10th; an earlier strike ignited a sto

2026-08-11

Libya's National Oil Corporation said on the 11th it may declare force majeure and fully suspend operations at the Zawiya refinery if drone attacks on the western Zawiya oil complex continue. The latest strike hit a blending and filling plant run by Zawiya Refining Company, with a drone crashing near a major storage tank and pipeline network; NOC reported no casualties or damage so far. NOC said this was the third drone attack on Zawiya facilities on the 9th–10th; an earlier strike ignited a storage tank that collapsed. Attacks have targeted the Zawiya oil complex, the refinery and a desalination plant. Zawiya refinery, about 40 km west of Tripoli, has processing capacity of roughly 120,000 bpd.