The National Oil Corporation announced in a statement today, Sunday, a state of force majeure at El Feel oil field due to the halt in production from the field located in the Murzuq Basin in the southwest of the country.
The National Oil Corporation explained that El Feel oil field was subjected to arbitrary closure attempts on Saturday evening, due to the entry of a group of individuals and preventing users from continuing production, which resulted in a complete halt of production and made the Corporation’s implementation of its contractual obligations impossible. It was forced to declare a state of force majeure on Mellitah crude until further notice.
In its statement, the corporation called for the language of reason and wisdom to prevail and to distance the oil sector from conflicts in order to preserve what was left of the already dilapidated and worn out infrastructure due to the consequences of arbitrary closures and scarce budgets over the past years.