Libya’s eastern oil export port Hariga closed on Sunday after a strike by security guards, leaving the country with just two functioning offshore fields, Reuters has reported.
Hariga in Tobruk, an eastern city near the Egyptian border, used to export around 120,000 barrels a day and now the shutdown will lower Libya’s total oil output to less than 300,000 barrels a day, a fraction of the 1.6mn it used to pump prior to 2011.
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Only Brega port in the north, which is used to supply the 120,000 bpd-Zawiya refinery with crude, is still open with all other ports and most oilfields halting export and production.
Libya’s two biggest oil export ports, Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, shut in December.
Hariga has closed several times due to strikes over payment demands from security guards which have been resolved within a week or two, according to reprots from Reuters.
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