Libya Oil Crisis Deepens as Loading Halted at Five Terminals
- Eastern government earlier this week ordered production halt
- Nation is embroiled in dispute over control of central bank
The Brega oil port in Marsa Brega, Libya.
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Libya suspended oil exports from five eastern ports, while the country’s output dipped further amid an escalating stalemate over who controls the central bank.
The eastern-based government ordered the halt of oil-loading operations at the ports of Brega, Es Sider, Ras Lanuf, Zueitina and Hariga, according to people familiar with the matter. They declined to be identified because the information is private.