Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) held its first Technical Coordination Meeting (TCM) with Zallaf Libya Oil & Gas on 3 June 2024 at the NOC's Sabha headquarters, marking the opening of formal oversight over Zallaf's 2024 exploration programme. The meeting was convened by NOC's Exploration Department and focused on reviewing and discussing exploration activity carried out by Zallaf Libya's own Exploration Department across the year to date.
The Sabha location is significant: the city sits in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya, placing this coordination effort squarely in the country's interior basin acreage rather than the more internationally familiar coastal and offshore areas. Zallaf Libya, which operates blocks in the Murzuq and surrounding basins, has been one of the more active domestic exploration vehicles in recent years, and the establishment of a formal TCM cadence with NOC signals an intent to maintain structured governance over its exploration calendar for 2024.
The article does not disclose specific wells planned, seismic volumes committed, or any block awards or contract instruments arising from the meeting. The TCM itself is a coordination and oversight mechanism — not a licensing action, an FID, or a procurement event. No third-party service companies or international partners are named in connection with the meeting, and no financial figures are cited.
Nevertheless, the reactivation of structured NOC-Zallaf dialogue is a meaningful signal for the Libyan upstream. Whenever NOC formalises its oversight of an operating entity's exploration schedule, it typically precedes a sequence of drilling decisions — well design, contracting, and mobilisation — that opens procurement windows for service providers. The Sabha-centric nature of the programme also implies logistical and operational requirements distinct from Libya's northern coastal operations, including desert drilling capability and remote supply chain management.