Tracking fires at Oil Crescent facilities damaged by fighting between rival armed groups using OSINT.
Recent violence in Libya’s Oil Crescent between armed forces loyal to Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) and rival armed groups resulted in another damage to an oil storage tank farm. This blog provides a brief outline on open-source reporting and satellite imagery from the area and a brief background to the ongoing targeting of the oil infrastructure in Libya and its associated socio-economic and environmental consequences.