A couple of items of note for oil from Libya over the weekend:
Libya's Sharara oilfield shut by pipeline blockade: sources
- oilfield the country's largest
- Shut down since Saturday because of a pipeline blockade
- State-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) declared force majeure on loadings of Sharara crude from the Zawiya oil terminal on Sunday, a document seen by Reuters showed
- Sharara had been producing up to 280,000 barrels per day (bpd) in recent weeks
Via Reuters, the wire citing industry sources and an engineer
Also: Shell lifts its first crude cargo from Libya in five years: industry sources
Reuters again (and Bloomberg have more here)
- Royal Dutch Shell has lifted a cargo of 600,000 barrels of crude oil from Libya's Zueitina port, its first from the war-torn north African country in 5 years, two industry sources told Reuters on Saturday.
