Libya's Southern Refinery Project advanced to its 2025 annual technical review on 19 October, when officials from the National Oil Corporation (NOC) and Zallaf Libya Oil & Gas convened in Sabha to assess implementation progress. The meeting drew wide participation from senior representatives of both organisations, signalling continued institutional commitment to a project that targets refining capacity in Libya's southern interior.
The gathering was framed as part of continuous follow-up on the project's implementation phases, suggesting the Southern Refinery remains in an active development and coordination stage rather than at construction completion. No specific milestones, revised timelines, capacity figures, or contractor names were disclosed in the available reporting, meaning the precise current status of engineering, procurement, or construction activities cannot be confirmed from this source.
Zallaf Libya, the project sponsor publishing this notice, is a Libyan oil and gas company operating under the broader NOC framework. Sabha, the host city, is the principal urban centre of the Fezzan region in southwestern Libya — geographically close to the producing basins that a southern refinery would logically serve, reducing the need to transport crude northward to coastal refineries before redistribution.
For now, this meeting represents a coordination and monitoring instrument rather than a contract award, FID, or procurement event. The Southern Refinery Project remains in a pre-execution phase from the perspective of external service and engineering engagement. Norwegian and international service companies should treat this as a project to monitor rather than one requiring immediate commercial action. The NOC–Zallaf axis will be the decision-making channel when procurement activity eventually opens, and early relationship-building with both entities is the appropriate step at this stage.