# Armed group shuts Libya’s largest oil field pipeline, jeopardising exports

https://mins.news/en/item/68751

- euronews, 2026-09-22 10:53 UTC
- Economy
- Original: https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/22/armed-group-shuts-libyas-largest-oil-field-pipeline-jeopardising-exports

> An armed group has closed a valve on the pipeline linking Libya’s El Sharara oil field to Zawiya, cutting production at a site that supplies about a third of the country’s total output. The national oil company warned it could declare force majeure.

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