A protest at the Zueitina oil terminal in late December forced operations to be halted for at least four days.

The state-owned Sirte Oil Company (SOC) held its annual general meeting this week, reporting that last year's unrest caused some $300m (LD378m) in damages and losses.

The new oil and gas minister, Abdelbari al-Arusi, has held meetings with managers from France's Total and Norway's Statoil.

Following a visit by oil and gas minister Abdelbari al-Arusi, the NOC says that employees at the Sharara field in southern Libya have agreed to end a sit-in. 

Italy's largest energy company, which already has a major presence in the Libyan energy sector, says it will invest $8bn (LD10bn) in the country over the next decade.

Libya's Abdalla al-Badri has been kept on as secretary-general of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

State-owned company says it is making progress on drilling exploration wells in the Sirte basin.

The Turkish Petroleum Overseas Company (TPOC), which made a number of discoveries in Libya prior to 2011, has lifted a state of force majeure and will resume exploration activities.

The new oil and gas minister, Abdelbari al-Arusi, has held a meeting with the Libya manager for Brazil's Petrobras, which is conducting offshore exploration in the north-east of the country.

In a recent interview with Reuters, new oil and gas minister Abdelbari al-Arusi said that a new licensing round "could" take place in the next 15 months, with Libya to review previous agreements to develop "the right solution for new negotiations in the future".

Canada's Sonde Resources has reached an agreement with the Tunisian-Libyan Joint Oil authority to continue its exploration of an offshore concession that straddles the maritime border between the two countries.

Italy's Eni Oil and Gas resumed its exploration programme in eastern Libya in late November, according to the National Oil Corporation (NOC).

The new oil and gas minister, Abdelbari al-Arusi, has met representatives of several energy firms with a presence in Libya, including Shell, which earlier this year said it was abandoning its exploration programme in the country.

A conference on Libya's energy sector, attended by the oil and gas minister and the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), was held recently at the University of Benghazi.

OiLibya, which is owned by the Libyan government, has recently opened a new blending plant and depot in Alexandria in partnership with France's Total.