London-Libya’s state-owned National Oil Corp. said Friday attempts to load a crude oil tanker from the damaged Ras Lanuf terminal for the first time since December 2014 were halted by the Oil Installations Guards citing security concerns. NOC also said the tanker was now being diverted to another port. The Aframax Nassau Energy was expected to load 80,000 mt of crude from Ras Lanuf this week, but on Friday morning it was traveling eastward not far the port of Derna, just east of Benghazi, according to Platts cFlow trade flow software.
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