On a visit to Tripoli, Sudan's oil minister has signed an energy cooperation agreement with Libya.

Damage caused by an explosion at a crude oil and condensate pipeline running to the Zueitina terminal in north-east Libya has been fully repaired, say the Libyan authorities.

An apparent attack on a crude oil and condensate pipeline close to the Zueitina oil terminal in north-east Libya took place on 2 April, according to LANA.

Abdelbari al-Arusi has held meetings with visiting energy delegation from Azerbaijan, representing the petrochemicals and downstream industries.

A group of employees from the Ras Lanuf refinery, which has experienced regular labour action in the past few months, has demonstrated outside the NOC building in Tripoli to demand changes.

Recent figures from the National Oil Corporation (NOC) suggest that crude exports and production in Libya rose strongly in February compared to the previous month.

The Russian oil company says that some of its staff are returning to resume work in Libya for the first time since the end of the 2011 conflict.

A group of local residents have held a protest outside the Zueitina Oil Company, near Ajdabiya in north-east Libya, which was already affected by a sit-in earlier in the year.

The chairman of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) says that Libya will send around one million barrels of crude oil to Egypt every month on credit.

Indonesia's Medco Energi says that oil production from its Area 47 concession in Libya will not start until 2016, some two years later than previous estimates by the company.

Malta's Medserv, an oil and gas services company, says that slower-than-expected progress on exploration in Libya hampered its performance last year.

Abdelbari al-Arusi held a meeting with the Libya branch manager of the London-listed engineering and construction firm.

A visiting delegation from the Canadian firm, which operates drilling rigs in Libya, has held meetings with the oil and gas minister and the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) over an employee sit-in.

A protest at the Ras Lanuf refinery has now ended, a representative of employees told The Libya Report, but the plant is still not operating.

There are reports of further instability at oil fields operated by Waha Oil in north-east Libya, which have also been affected by strikes.