Libya could be on the verge of achieving another increase in crude production, after lifting a blockade on a key southwestern oil pipeline. The Petroleum Facilities Guard has re-opened a key valve at Reyayna, northeast of Zintan. The blockade had shut in lines connecting the 350,000 b/d El Sharara field to the 120,000 b/d Zawia refinery since November 2014 and the 90,000 b/d Elephant field to the Mellitah complex since April 2015. “This is a very significant event, which will help restore our economy,” state-owned oil firm NOC's chairman, Mustafa Sanalla, says. “We will add 175,000 b/d to national production within one month and 270,000 b/d within three months.”
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