Crude exports from Libya’s eastern Marsa el-Hariga port have resumed after an almost three-week blockade following a recent agreement by the country’s rival administrations over oil policy. Crude exports from Hariga had been suspended since late April following a disagreement between the Tripoli-based NOC and a rival administration based in Bayda and Tobruk in the east of the country, forcing crude production levels to fall to 220,000 b/d from around 350,000 b/d at the beginning of April. Talks to resolve the impasse took place between the NOC and the country’s eastern administration earlier this week in Vienna. NOC chief executive Mustafa Sanalla met with the chairman of the national oil company controlled by the rival government based in Bayda-Tobruk, Nagi el-Maghrabi to agree steps to unify NOC and lift the blockade at Hariga. As well as resuming crude exports, the two sides agreed to seek to “avoid damage to pipelines, avert a financial crisis, and ensure power supplies are not interrupted further.”
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