{"id":114516,"date":"2026-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/menaplus\/?p=114516"},"modified":"2026-04-24T06:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T06:39:21","slug":"can-high-quality-oil-reserves-and-a-massive-reconstruction-opportunity-draw-global-investors-to-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/menaplus\/2026\/04\/24\/can-high-quality-oil-reserves-and-a-massive-reconstruction-opportunity-draw-global-investors-to-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Can high-quality oil reserves and a massive reconstruction opportunity draw global investors to Libya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>A growing number of international businesses are signaling that it\u2019s time to get in on the <\/strong><strong>ground floor in post-conflict Libya: <\/strong>Even with two competing governments in place, dilapidated infrastructure, and a messy basket of fiscal problems, oil and gas majors are now following in the footsteps of Egyptian construction players \u2014 and there are signs players in other industries are putting out feelers, analysts and execs tell us. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Proximity, politics, and a proven ability to take on and mitigate risk saw Egyptian players <\/strong><strong>move in first<\/strong>, including state-backed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arabcont.com\/projects?location=Libya\" style=\"\">Arab Contractors<\/a> and players with close government ties, such as El Argany (a key player born out of post-insurgency Sinai) and Wadi El Nile. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>From energy to oil and dry ports: <\/strong>Egypt is in talks to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2026\/01\/15\/egypt-libya-fast-track-2-gw-power-link-in-boost-to-reconstruction-efforts-and-the-egyptian-players-taking-part-2\/\" style=\"\">scale its<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2026\/01\/15\/egypt-libya-fast-track-2-gw-power-link-in-boost-to-reconstruction-efforts-and-the-egyptian-players-taking-part-2\/\" style=\"\">electricity interconnection<\/a> to Eastern Libya to a 2 GW line from c. 150 MW today, we previously reported \u2014 a ramp-up that could help solve eastern Libya\u2019s chronic blackouts and unblock bns of USD in Egyptian-led reconstruction work in Benghazi and Derna, where projects have been hamstrung by a fragmented grid. Egypt has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2026\/04\/07\/egypt-secures-libyan-crude-to-compensate-for-hormuz-strait-closure-disruptions\/\" style=\"\">locked-in a good chunk of Libya\u2019s crude output<\/a> to make up for lost supply thanks to the war in the Gulf. And Libya announced a planned dryport late last year as a prelude to a joint free zone with Egypt \u2014 officials in the east have consistently signaled more infrastructure contracts are coming Egyptian contractors\u2019 way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>More adventurous European outfits came in next \u2014 and global oil majors and big African <\/strong><strong>outfits are following. <\/strong>Italy\u2019s Eni and Spain\u2019s Repsol, which had paused drilling in Libya for more than a decade thanks to the war, were early pathfinders, resuming exploration in 2024 and 2025. A recent bid round saw Nigeria\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/energy\/libya-awards-new-oil-gas-blocks-chevron-eni-others-first-licensing-round-since-2026-02-11\/\" style=\"\">Aiteo<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chevron.com\/newsroom\/2026\/q1\/chevron-enters-libya-with-new-block-award-as-part-of-broader-exploration-growth-strategy\" style=\"\">Chevron<\/a> clinch exploration concessions. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>And service providers are taking note: <\/strong>Switzerland-based engineering services firm Sulzer recently said it plans to set up shop in Libya and build an on-ground equipment maintenance facility in Misrate to serve the sector, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/menaplus\/2026\/04\/20\/mena-ecm-activity-plunged-in-1q-but-it-was-a-good-quarter-for-ma\/\" style=\"\">we previously<\/a><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/menaplus\/2026\/04\/20\/mena-ecm-activity-plunged-in-1q-but-it-was-a-good-quarter-for-ma\/\" style=\"\">reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>\u201cThe broad interest now visible across sectors like healthcare, infrastructure, telecom, <\/strong><strong>and construction has a straightforward explanation:<\/strong> both Libyan governments have been spending at an extraordinary rate,\u201d Jalel Harchaoui, a Libya analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, told EnterpriseAM. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Libya has two governments:<\/strong> The UN-recognized government in Tripoli in the west and the Benghazi government in the east, which maintains close ties to Egypt. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Most of the interest from non-oil actors stops short of them committing significant <\/strong><strong>capital to Libya <\/strong>\u2014 it\u2019s about servicing contracts, not building new plants. Interest is skewed towards players from \u201ccountries that already have a political stake in Libya, like Egypt, the UAE, Italy, and Turkey,\u201d Connor Coleman, senior MENA analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit, told us. This enables them to navigate risks that would scare off most Western players, he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\">It\u2019s all about the geology\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>To understand why the investment outlook for Libya\u2019s oil and gas sector outpaces <\/strong><strong>others, you need to turn to geology. <\/strong>\u201cIt\u2019s all about the geological quality of Libya\u2019s reserves, both onshore and offshore,\u201d Harchaoui says. \u201cFor companies operating on time horizons of 15 to 25 years, the calculus was straightforward: They needed to be present. Libya offered experienced technical crews, limited uncertainty regarding reserves and exploration prospects, and vast untapped potential \u2014 particularly offshore, but also in large onshore patches that remain essentially untouched,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>This geology is Libya\u2019s competitive advantage: <\/strong>Unlike the complex, capital-intensive deepwater fields in the region like Egypt\u2019s Zohr, Libya\u2019s shallow onshore fields can be quickly brought into service and have much lower costs of production. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Case in point: <\/strong>Italian energy giant Eni <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eni.com\/en-IT\/media\/press-release\/2026\/03\/pr-eni-announces-new-gas-discoveries-lybia.html\" style=\"\">announced<\/a> two offshore natural gas discoveries with a 1 tn cubic feet (tcf) in the Metlaoui Formation, some 16 km south of the operational Bahr Essalam field. While the specific reserve volumes are modest compared to the East Mediterranean\u2019s massive fields, these shallow fields are quick to get into production and cheap to operate. And now, all <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7452261825334882304\/\" style=\"\">eyes are on<\/a> the soon-to-be announced outcome for the gas exploration drilling carried out by an Eni-BP JV in the Al\u2011Matsola\u20111 offshore field in the Sirte basin. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>But even with all this progress, major challenges remain: <\/strong>Libya may have the capacity to ramp up crude output as planned this year to 1.6 mn bb\/d, but its <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mees.com\/2024\/11\/15\/oil-gas\/libya-crude-output-hits-11-year-high-as-2mn-bd-target-expedited\/5a06da20-a353-11ef-a632-e31ffa39c42e\" style=\"\">target<\/a> to go up to 2 mn bb\/d within the next few years will be very difficult to achieve with the current flows of infrastructure investments, Ayed Guembri, the former director of Baker Hughes North Africa, tells us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\">\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\">The infrastructure problem<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Libya\u2019s 2 mn bb\/d target is physically constrained by a decade of infrastructure decay <\/strong>despite its theoretical viability, as many brownfield projects can afford improvement in production. \u201cThe infrastructure is quite affected by the war,\u201d Guembri said. \u201cI\u2019m talking about the old pipeline that is linking all the infrastructure ... it was quite damaged, and it\u2019s an old one, impacted by corrosion.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>\u201cWe need new roads, new laws, security, and a reliable customs system,\u201d<\/strong> Peter Loshi, the Libya Director of the Malta-based oil logistics provider MedservRegis, tells us. \u201cLibya is a huge country. If somebody has to drive 2k km, they might as well get a plane,\u201d he said, arguing that many of the oil fields that await tapping into would need investment in new airstrips and small airports in the desert. Otherwise, these projects remain \u201cjust an idea on paper,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>And Italy\u2019s fleet of rigs is an issue: <\/strong>There were 50 available in Libya before the war \u2014 and 20 today, Guembri told us. Bringing in more rigs adds to both expense and lead time. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\">\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\">The elephant(s) in the room with us<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Banking and the repatriation of profits remain key challenges. <\/strong>\u201cLibya doesn't have a banking system, it\u2019s very primitive,\u201d and decoupled from the global system, MedservRegis\u2019 Loshi tells us. \u201cIf you send a payment from one institution to another, it stays a week in the bank... You cannot run a business like that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>For most players, that means taking local payment in one of two forms. <\/strong>Behind door number one: Taking cash in-country, with all of the risk that comes with it \u2014 from theft and fraud to your board asking why they can\u2019t use that money to finance other operations or pay dividends. When does that cash get out of the country? How? It could take years to sort that out. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Behind door number two:<\/strong> Taking what Eni, a multinational player with a long history in Libya, would <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eni.com\/en-IT\/media\/press-release\/2026\/02\/eni-awarded-a-new-offshore-exploration-license-in-libya.html#:~:text=San%20Donato%20Milanese%20(Milan)%2C,NOC%20and%20the%20consortium%20partners.\" style=\"\">describe<\/a> as \u201cequity hydrocarbon\u201d \u2014 payment in crude, not cash. Few players have the risk tolerance for either approach to payment. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Libya\u2019s divided government and longstanding issues with corruption are the biggest <\/strong><strong>obstacles to a large-scale return of investments. <\/strong>Libya has two competing governments in the east and the west \u2014 and parallel spending reached a level that ultimately contributed to the collapse of the currency last year. Corruption also remains a pervasive issue, with \u201clarge volumes\u201d of crude oil slipping out through unofficial channels \u201cbefore they can be monetized and deposited as USD revenues\u201d with the state, Harchaoui said. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Libya has been sending some positive <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/menaplus\/2026\/04\/17\/qatar-could-extend-fm-on-gas-beyond-june-edison-says\/\" style=\"\">signals<\/a><\/strong> <strong> on these fronts. <\/strong>A Tripoli court sentenced a former marketing executive at national oil company NOC to 10 years in prison on corruption charges, and NOC recently terminated a co-development agreement with Arkenu Oil Company, also amid allegations of corruption. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>A joint budget? <\/strong>Then there\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/libya-signs-first-unified-state-budget-over-decade-2026-04-11\/\" style=\"\">the prospect of a \u2018unified\u2019 budget<\/a> \u2014 Libya\u2019s first in 13 years. \u201c[The budget] implies a degree of revenue sharing \u2026 covering expenditures for both rival governments,\u201d EIU\u2019s Coleman tells us. \u201cProgress on the budgets is real, but it sits within a political order that is still very transactional,\u201d adds. \u201cThere are real positive steps and a cleanup of the political order, but they're not a clean break with the old system. The power brokers haven't changed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\">\n<p class=\"tag-border-left\">What\u2019s next?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The Libya business story in 2026 isn\u2019t really about security<\/strong>, but whether the governing institutions can turn building momentum into something that lasts. \u201cI think a lot of players will come in as soon as big American companies like Chevron, BP, and Shell are back,\u201d Guembri said. But some of these players, as in the case of Chevron or Exxon, are only back on paper for now. \u201cThey're not moving in tomorrow. They are studying the country and taking their time,\u201d Loshi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>What to watch: How the unified budget unfolds. <\/strong>A key signal is whether the competing governments stay the course and take real steps toward ending parallel spending. \u201cThe unification of the budget is a good signal for everybody\u2026. [It] will help stabilize and overcome the challenge of illegal sales of oil,\u201d as well as currency pressures, Guembri believes. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The catch: The budget can\u2019t be a paper tiger. <\/strong>It needs to translate into fiscal discipline: \u201cIf you end up with a unified budget, but parallel spending starts again? 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