Fighting halts Libyan oil trade
Libya Rival armed militias attacked the army of General Khalifa Haftar, which controls the Mediterranean ports of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider, alongside other parts of Libya’s so-called oil crescent, Reuters reported.
“National Oil Corporation has evacuated staff from both [Es Sider] and Ras Lanuf terminals for their safety due to armed clashes in the area,” the NOC said in a statement. “The loss in oil production is around 240,000 [bopd] and a planned tanker entry today to [Es Sider] has been postponed.”
Libya has seen frequent outages due to violence following the ousting of the country’s former authoritarian leader Muammar Gaddafi in a brutal civil war that erupted in 2011.
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