Weather, storage facility force Libya’s oil production down by 45, 000 bpd
Libya’s oil production has dropped to 655,000 barrels a day due to difficulties, including a lack of storage capacity and poor weather, the head of the National Oil Corporation said on Saturday.
Its Chairman Mustafa Sanalla said in London that production had been more than 700,000 bpd over the past week, but dropped to 655,000 bpd.
“Oil production has unfortunately decreased due to bad weather and short storage capacities as well as some technical problems in some fields,” Sanalla said.
A deputy leader of the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli had put production at 750,000 bpd on Friday.
Libya’s production has been rising after a two-year blockade on a western pipeline connected to Sharara field was lifted last month.
It remains well below the 1.6 million bpd the OPEC member was producing before its 2011 uprising.
A tanker that was loading the first shipment of Sharara crude from Zawiya terminal for more than two years on Friday had been postponed because of weather conditions.