Libya Oil Guards Set New Salary Deadline as Exports Risk Lingers
- Petroleum guards will let crude oil tanker load at Es Sider
- Deadline underscores the risk of disruption to crude exports
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Guards protecting Libya’s oil installations gave the country’s government a new deadline to pay overdue salaries at two of the nation’s main crude-export terminals, maintaining a lingering threat to the conflict-ridden country’s shipments just months after they revived.
Guards on strike at Ras Lanuf and Es Sider, the country’s largest and third-largest oil ports, gave the government 10 days from Thursday to pay the salaries, Mansour Latoush, the head of the protection unit of the Petroleum Facilities Guard at the two ports, said. The previous deadline was Jan. 24.