Libya’s National Oil Corporation has endorsed an executive plan to implement 35 key development projects across municipalities in the country’s southwest over the next three years, in one of the most ambitious community investment programmes undertaken by the state oil entity in the region.
The projects span vital sectors including healthcare, water supply, renewable energy, environmental management, sports infrastructure, and youth development. They will be carried out across a broad sweep of municipalities — Ubari, Al-Ghraifa, Germa, Bent Baya, Sabha, Wadi Atba, Ghat, Wadi Al-Bawanis, Al-Awaynat, Brak Al-Shati, as well as Zuwila, Umm Al-Aranib, Barqan, and Waddan — bringing structured investment to communities that sit at the doorstep of Libya’s most productive oil zones but have historically seen limited development returns from the country’s hydrocarbon wealth.
The plan was announced following a high-level meeting between the NOC’s Sustainable Development Department and mayors and community leaders from the region. The initiative is designed to support local development and enhance social stability in areas surrounding the operations of Zallaf Libya Company, Akakus Oil Operations, and other oil facilities in southern Libya — a deliberate alignment between the oil sector’s social licence to operate and the material needs of communities closest to its infrastructure. The programme signals a broader policy direction within the NOC: that sustainable production in the south requires a genuine and measurable investment in the wellbeing of the people who live alongside it.
Source: Libya Observer