One worker killed, four injured as fire triggers explosion at Libyan gas complex
GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Arab News · Saudi Arabia · North Africa
BENGHAZI: Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Wednesday that one worker was killed and four injured after a fire triggered an explosion at Sirte Oil Company’s gas complex in Marsa Brega, although gas and crude production was unaffected. Sirte Oil Company is a subsidiary of the state-owned NOC. NOC Chairman Massoud Soleman said on Facebook that preliminary information indicated a leak in a gas line supplying one of the facility’s boilers. Soleman told Reuters that repairs were ex
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