On Sunday, the crude oil tanker ‘Neoces Therasis’ docked at the eastern Libyan port of Zueitina. The tanker is due to load 600,000 barrels of crude oil for export to Italy, according to port officials.
At Zueitina, three tankers are expected to load oil at ‘Bu Attifel’, over the next ten days.
The customers are Austria’s OMV, Spain’s Repsol, and Italian refinery Saras, according to a local shipping agent.
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) announced on Sunday that it would resume production at the country’s largest oil field, El-Sharara. This comes amid peace talks between rival officials from eastern and western Libya.
These are part of preliminary negotiations ahead of a UN-brokered dialogue set to take place next month.
The NOC said it lifted the force majeure imposed on El-Sharara, after reaching “an honour agreement” with the Petroleum Facilities Guard aligned with the Libyan National Army (LNA), thus ensuring that no “obstructions” would occur at the field.