Libya’s eastern Hariga oil port has reopened after a protest by security guards ended there, receiving the first tanker loading 750,000 barrels of oil, a spokesman for state-owned National Oil Corp (NOC) said on Sunday.
A second tanker would dock later on Sunday at the port located in Tobruk to load 600,000 barrels of oil, NOC spokesman Mohamed El-Harari said.
Libya’s economy has been paralysed by 10 months of oil port strikes at the country’s eastern oil ports, which have seen the country’s oil output drop from 1.4mbpd to just 200,000 bpd.
Many of Libyas eastern ports remain closed, but a Libyan official said that the country’s western El Feel oil field was working “normally” after a separate protest had ended there more than a week ago.
