The National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on 14 April that the Zawiya Oil Refining Company has completed work on a new industrial oils blending and packaging production facility.
The NOC said that the project had been implemented in cooperation with the German-Libyan company GTG German Technology Holding. Members of the company’s engineering team were present at the launch ceremony.
The NOC indicated that the new project is using state-of-the-art technologies to produce international-standard marine, hydraulic and heavy industrial engine oils. These, it said, would also prove competitive in the local market with high-quality international oils.
The NOC did not disclose daily production estimates or when the manufactured materials will be released to the local market.
GTG, which is headquartered in Germany, is active in the Libyan market and has been developing ties with the NOC and its affiliates. It has focused in particular on renewable energy.
At the end of November, GTG and the NOC organised a workshop in Tripoli on developing renewable energy projects in the oil fields. Prior to that, the NOC and GTG had signed an agreement to set up a 600-MW solar power plant in Obari to be linked to the new refinery project there.
GTG is also to be involved in a projected solar project in Tawergha, planned by the Renewable Energy Authority of Libya (REAoL).
