TRIPOLI: Libya鈥檚 Arabian Gulf Oil Company has resumed output at up to 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) to meet domestic needs, while exports are still halted, engineers said on Sunday, after a standoff between factions shut most of the country鈥檚 oilfields.
On Saturday, the Arabian Gulf Oil Company, the operator of Libya鈥檚 Sarir, Messla and Nafoura oilfields, issued an instruction for production to restart.
The resumption, below the fields鈥� full capacity, is intended only to supply electricity and fuel plants for domestic needs, the engineers told Reuters. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Factions in the east of Libya, where oil production is concentrated, shut output down in August after factions dominant in western Libya ousted veteran Central Bank of Libya governor Sadiq Al-Kabir and replaced him with a rival board.