# NOC says LNA-commanded forces shut oil pipeline and eastern terminals Date: 2020 ## The fact On 20 January 2020 Libya’s National Oil Corporation said guards under Libyan National Army command had shut a pipeline to Zawiya, forcing production limits at Sharara and El Feel, after eastern export terminals had already been closed in an apparent power play as foreign powers met in Berlin. Reuters recorded NOC’s statement that the shutdowns were directly ordered by the LNA and could take output from about 1.2 million barrels a day toward 72,000. Do not invent a unique later billion as Contribution.size. He did not sit as NOC’s Tripoli board. ## Context The Tripoli offensive was still running. He did not sit as every terminal guard. 4 April 2019 offensive is parent. Berlin summit is same-week weather. Keep NOC says LNA-commanded forces shut oil pipeline and eastern terminals on 2020-01-20 separate from neighbouring 4 April 2019 Tripoli order, January 2020 oil shutdowns, June 2020 withdrawal, and August 2025 deputy-commander decree. The commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army can order offensives and shut terminals in territory he holds. He does not sit as every LNA unit, as NOC’s Tripoli board, as the GNA, as Wagner, or as the UN. This run does not mint Saddam Haftar and does not mint ukraine-war. ## Evidence and sources National Oil Corporation of Libya carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is oil coercion: a completed LNA-attributed shutdown of national crude as a bargaining chip. ## What is established and what is not Established: NOC said on 20 January 2020 that LNA-commanded forces had shut the pipeline and that eastern terminals were already closed. Not established: A unique later billion as Contribution.size, or that every later 2022 blockade is this same January order. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He commanded the LNA. Berlin met the same weekend.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies NOC says LNA-commanded forces shut oil pipeline and eastern terminals, not a later speech about NOC says LNA-commanded forces shut oil pipeline and eastern terminals. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. NOC says LNA-commanded forces shut oil pipeline and eastern terminals on 2020-01-20 is not a licence to treat every later National Oil Corporation of Libya communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average NOC says LNA-commanded forces shut oil pipeline and eastern terminals into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to NOC attributed the shutdowns to LNA command. He commanded the LNA. Berlin met the same weekend. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Khalifa Haftar: https://factrail.ai/people/khalifa-haftar ## Drivers - Haftar LNA parallel power, Tripoli offensive and oil coercion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/haftar-lna-parallel-power ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/economy/pipeline-closure-risks-taking-nearly-all-libyas-oil-offline-idUSKBN1ZJ05W/ - https://noc.ly/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ly-haftar-oil-2020