The National Oil Corporation confirmed in a statement today, Saturday, that several sites in the Zawiya refinery were subjected to varying damage due to the armed clashes that occurred on Friday evening, and revealed that preliminary statistics had recorded damage to 29 sites in the refinery, including oil derivatives tanks.
In its statement, the National Oil Corporation called on everyone to exercise restraint and to distance oil installations from any armed actions that would endanger the lives of workers and harm the already dilapidated infrastructure of the oil sector, noting that the Zawiya oil complex had been subjected to severe and repeated damage as a result of the armed clashes that occurred next to it. During the past years, which has led and continues to endanger the lives of users and threaten the safety of operations and the safety of assets and facilities.