Zuwetina
Zuwetina
Town in Cyrenaica, Libya
Zuwetina or Zuetine ( Marsa Uasili; Arabic: الزويتينة) is a coastal town and oil-exporting port in the Al Wahat District of the Cyrenaica region in north-eastern Libya.[3] From 1987 to 2007 Zuwetina was in the former Ajdabiya District.
The oil terminal in the small harbor is operated by the Zuwetina Oil Company. The town's primary activities relate to oil production and transshipping crude oil. It is about 180 km south west of Benghazi.[4] The port has capacity for storing 4.3 million barrels of crude oil, 986 thousand barrels of naphtha, 136 thousand barrels of liquefied butane gas and 86 thousand barrels of liquefied propane gas.[5]
The port was the site of skirmishes between pro- and anti-Gaddafi forces during the 2011 Libyan civil war.[6] Since the fall of the Gaddafi regime there have been multiple strikes and environmental conflicts disruptions due to conflict over the production of oil.[7] In 2022, the National Oil Corporation said that damage from the course of the war, meant that facilitaties at the site were vulnerable to potential spills.[8]
