Libya halted oil production from its El Feel oilfield on Sunday and two sources at Zueitina oil port said exports there had been suspended after protesters calling for Tripoli-based Prime Minister Abdulhamid al-Dbeibah to resign took over the sites, Reuters reports. Halting operations in El Feel and Zueitina would cripple Libya's oil production which averaged 1.21 million barrels per day before the latest outages. The force majeure on El Feel curtails the North African nation's production by 70,000 barrels per day. The state-owned oil company NOC said in a statement that a group of people, which it did not identify, had entered the facilities of El Feel the previous day and prevented employees from working. Meanwhile, two oil engineers at Zueitina told Reuters that protesters got into the port on Sunday morning preventing a tanker from loading 1 million barrels at the port.

Source: Libya Today April 17, 2022 12:15 UTC