Libya's NOC says Zawiya oil blending plant was attacked by a drone, although there was no damage or casualties, while the latest drone attack was the third targeting oil assets in Zawiya over Sunday and Monday

Says: It will be forced to declare force majeure and completely halt operations at Zawiya refinery if attacks continue.

Libyan supply has a long record of being hostage to attacks on infrastructure and to the disputes that surround them, and the market has learned to distinguish between strikes that damage physical capacity and threats of force majeure, which are a legal and political instrument as much as an operational one. Three strikes in two days against assets in Zawiya, even without damage, shifts the calculus because NOC's statement puts a conditional halt on the record: force majeure declarations in Libya have historically been the mechanism by which output comes off quickly and returns unpredictably, with resumption tied to security guarantees and political negotiation rather than repairs. The transmission channel is the prompt physical crude market: Zawiya feeds both the refinery and export flows of light sweet crude, a grade for which Libyan outages tighten Mediterranean differentials and the related refining margin for local refiners configured for that slate. Past episodes of this kind have tended to fade if the attacks stop and to escalate into full shut-ins if they do not, so the immediate tell is whether further strikes materialise and whether NOC follows through on the declaration rather than treating it as leverage. The secondary read-across is to whoever is conducting the strikes and what their demands are, since in prior Libyan episodes the durability of any outage has depended on the actor behind the blockade. As headlines go, the absence of damage keeps this in the warning category, but the force majeure language is the standard precursor sequence.