{
  "id": 3915240,
  "title": "Libya Is Selling Europe Gas It Currently Cannot Export",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/libya-is-selling-europe-gas-it-currently-cannot-export",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-28T07:01:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Rio Times",
    "slug": "the-rio-times",
    "url": "https://www.riotimesonline.com/libya-gas-exports-europe-greenstream-2026/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) has announced plans to increase gas production to approximately one billion standard cubic feet per day within five years, aiming to sell more of it to Europe. The NOC chairman, Masoud Suleiman, disclosed this during the LNG 2026 conference in Doha in early February 2026. However, Libyan gas exports to Italy currently average 105 million cubic feet per day, which is a 22% decrease compared to the previous year, and the lowest in over two decades. The only gas export outlet for Libya is the Greenstream subsea pipeline to Sicily, with a capacity of 8 billion cubic meters annually, or about 775 million cubic feet per day. The NOC attributes the low exports to technical reasons to preserve pipeline integrity, as domestic power generation consumes the majority of the flow. Despite this, the NOC has initiated projects such as the Sabratha compression project and the Bouri gas utilisation project to address the situation. Libya's gas reserves, conventional and unconventional combined, amount to 80 trillion cubic feet. The NOC is also expected to launch a new licensing round in 2026, which may include unconventional or marginal fields. However, the current gas exports to Italy are only a small fraction of the pipeline's capacity, indicating that Libya's gas exports to Europe are significantly lower than its production ambitions.",
  "summary": "Tripoli wants a billion cubic feet a day and a route to Italy. Its actual pipeline flows last year were the lowest in 22 years, and the reason is domestic. The post Libya Is Selling Europe Gas It Currently Cannot Export appeared first on The Rio Times .",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}