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Wednesday, May 28, 2014
A spokesman from Libyan NOC subsidiary AGOCO reported that the country’s Sarir oil field has been closed due to the tanks at the port of Hariga being full. The spokesman also said that production at the Messla field had been restrained for the same reason.
“The production of the Sarir oilfield is zero because it has been closed as the stores of Hariga oil Port are full enough,” the AGOCO spokesman said.
The Hariga port was handed over to Libya’s Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG) in April by protesters, now these guards have begun protesting at the port. The guards are demanding salary payments and disrupting operations there. This is what has stopped production at the Sarir and cut production at the Messla.
According to a Reuters report a crude tanker, the Alexia, has already been waiting to load at Hariga port since last week while another, the Phoenix Beacon, was expected to arrive shortly to load crude.
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