Brega Oil Company source says operations at the Zawiya refinery (120k BPD) resumed today

Libyan supply headlines of this kind follow a well-worn sequence: a stoppage is reported, a company source announces resumption, and the market treats the restart as provisional until loadings or refined product flows confirm it.

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Brega has been the named operator in repeated stop-start episodes across Libyan infrastructure, and source-based restart notices there have historically preceded full normalisation by a lag, with the headline often re-contested. The mechanism here runs through Mediterranean product supply rather than crude: Zawiya is a refining asset, so the transmission is into regional gasoline and middle distillate balances and the freight and insurance costs that Libyan instability layers onto them, not directly into the crude export tally unless upstream feeds are involved. Episodes of this type have tended to produce only modest, quickly retraced moves in product cracks unless the shutdown was prolonged or coincided with export terminal disruption. Worth noting is the asymmetry: outage headlines in Libya have typically carried more price weight than resumption headlines, since restarts are the expected base case. The follow-ons are confirmation of sustained run rates, any statement on crude supply into the refinery, and whether parallel field or port headlines point to the same underlying disruption.

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