The Central Bank of Libya said today, Monday, that the country's total crude oil revenues last January amounted to zero, driven by the crisis of closing oil supply valves in the country.
The Central Bank called - in a statement - everyone to join efforts to resume oil production in the country and export, as this resulted in losses of 2.5 billion dinars (1.77 billion dollars) due to the absence of oil revenues.
The oil sector in Libya witnessed tensions last month as a result of the closure of the Sharara oil fields (the largest in the country) and the elephant, after stopping the "Nakil" pipeline, which caused a reduction in global production and supplies.
The Libyan Central Bank stated that the continuation of this closure of the most prominent source of state revenues threatens the financial, economic and political conditions, noting that the total oil revenues last December amounted to 2.47 billion dinars (1.75 billion dollars).
He added that he had not paid any salaries to workers in the country last month.
Earlier in the day, the Libyan Oil Corporation announced that it was forced to close the Al-Zawiya refinery in the west of the country three days ago, as a result of the closing of a valve in an area on the main pipeline between the Sharara oil field and the refinery, which caused the suspension of production in the field.
The corporation warned - in a statement - that closing the refinery would exacerbate the problem of managing, importing and distributing fuel derivatives in the local market, which would cost the public treasury sums to import additional quantities of fuel to compensate for the losses.
Total non-oil financial revenues during last January were about 2.53 billion dinars (1.78 billion dollars), according to central bank data.