Sirte Oil Company (SOC) is an oil and gas company in Libya operating under the state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC).[1] The company is located in Brega[2] SOC’s operations include oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) and manufacturing.
Background
The company was initially known as Esso Standard Libya Inc.,[3] the first company to discover commercial quantities of crude oil in the Zelten oil field.[4] In 1981, Exxon (parent company of Esso Standard) withdrew their Libyan operations, after which Sirte Oil Company was formed as a NOC subsidiary. It was established to operate the former Esso Sirte installation like the Marsa el-Brega refinery.