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Wednesday, March 4, 2015
The hits continue for Libya, and not the good kind as in discoveries, but the bad kind as in attacks on oil installations. Islamist militants took over Libya’s Bahi oil station and the Mabrouk oilfield on March 3 after security forces guarding the installations were forced to retreat.
The militants had shelled the two facilities the day before, damaging the pipeline that carries crude to the Es Sidra port.
Not only are the country’s oil facilities being battered by Islamist militants but by the rival Libyan governments. Forces from both governments have carried out strikes on oil terminals and an airport on March 2.
The UN called for hostilities to end before negotiations start in Morocco but neither side is heeding the call.
Oil installations and key infrastructure are prime targets in the conflict, pitting Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni’s internationally recognized government against Libya Dawn, the group which took Tripoli in 2014 and formed its own administration. Forces allied to Libya Dawn bombed the oil ports of RasLanuf and Es Sidra, causing minor damage, according to a security official with the internationally recognized government, cited in a Reuters report.
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