Libya's National Oil Corporation (NOC) has reopened the crude pipeline running from the Charara (El Feel) field to the Zawiya terminal on the country's northwestern coast, ending an outage the company says cost it roughly $95 million in lost revenue.

The line feeds the 320,000-bpd Zawiya refinery and export terminal west of Tripoli, one of the key outlet points for Libyan crude in the western part of the country. NOC did not specify in its announcement how quickly throughput would ramp back to normal levels, and force majeure implications, if any were declared on affected cargoes, were not detailed.

The $95 million loss figure comes from NOC's own assessment of the shutdown period, and the company has not provided a day-by-day breakdown of production losses. Libya's western output has proved repeatedly vulnerable to pipeline interruptions, armed interference at field gates and blockades at export terminals, and NOC has long warned that each closure erodes both near-term revenue and the confidence of buyers and partners in Libyan barrels as reliable supply.

The restart restores the evacuation route for crude produced in the Murzuq Basin-side concessions that feed into the Zawiya system. For the domestic market, the reopening also matters for refining: Zawiya is one of Libya's largest refining complexes, and prolonged crude starvation there tightens local fuel supply and pushes the country toward costlier imported products.

The loss estimate underscores the economics at stake in Libya's fragile security arrangement around energy infrastructure. NOC has pressed, in previous statements on similar outages, for armed groups to be removed from oil facilities and for the sector to be treated as off-limits in local disputes. The company has framed repeated closures as the single largest drag on its production recovery ambitions.

Watch items: the pace of the throughput ramp at Charara-Zawiya, NOC's next production update, and whether any further closures affect the Zawiya-Mellitah western export complex in the weeks ahead.