Explained: Protesters storm key energy complex in Libya during demonstrations over power outages

Protesters stormed the General Electricity Company's Mellitah Oil & Gas complex and closed gas lines overnight

Mellitah Oil & Gas complex

A strategic energy facility in western Libya that supplies gas for power plants and export

National Oil Corporation

The body that issued a statement about the gas/fuel supply disruption

Government of Unity

The internationally recognized administration in Tripoli headed by PM Dbeibah

subsea pipeline

Underwater pipeline used to send compressed gas from the Mellitah complex to Sicily

Standard Cubic Meters

A unit measuring the volume of gas supplied, used to describe daily gas exports to Italy