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Libya Ramps Up Oil Exports as Output Nears 300,000 Barrels a Day

Published 10/04/2020, 04:00 AM
Updated 10/04/2020, 06:45 AM
© Reuters.  Libya Ramps Up Oil Exports as Output Nears 300,000 Barrels a Day

© Reuters. Libya Ramps Up Oil Exports as Output Nears 300,000 Barrels a Day

(Bloomberg) -- Libya’s oil output has risen to 295,000 barrels following a truce in the OPEC nation’s civil war and the lifting of a blockade on energy facilities.

Fields that feed the newly restarted eastern ports of Hariga, Brega and Zueitina are ramping up production, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. Output was 250,000 barrels a day a week ago and will rise further as ships dock and load crude from storage tanks, allowing fields to pump more, the person said.

Libya’s restart is weighing on oil prices just as traders become more bearish about the outlook for energy demand with many nations introducing stricter restrictions to curb the Coronavirus pandemic.

Brega is set to export 1.8 million barrels in October via three cargoes, according to a loading program. Zueitina is set to load five cargoes. Hariga has loaded two tankers of one million barrels each in the past two weeks.

The loading programs are preliminary and Libya may export more than the schedule suggests.

The country, home of Africa’s largest oil reserves, pumped around 1.2 million barrels a day at the start of the year, before the blockade shut down most ports and fields.

State energy firm National Oil Corp. is evaluating security at Libya’s four other onshore oil ports -- including Zawiya, which handles crude from Sharara, the nation’s biggest field -- before restarting them. Mercenaries involved in the civil war still occupy or are located near some of them.

©2020 Bloomberg L.P.

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