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Derek Brower
London
29 June 2015
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Libyan fields could resume production after negotiations

Libyan oil production could almost double, pouring more light oil into an oversupplied global market

The 100,000 barrels a day (b/d) Eni-operated Feel and 350,000 b/d Repsol-operated Sharara fields, deep in Libya’s southwest, could resume production quickly following negotiations with Zintani militia leaders, who shut down the fields in 2014. The pipelines taking those fields’ production to Mellitah and Zawiyah, on the coast of Tripoli, pass through Zintani territory. A pipeline diversion briefly allowed for shipments from Feel earlier this year. Less likely, despite claims from National Oil Corporation (NOC) earlier in June, is a swift resumption of oil through Ras Lanuf and Es-Sider, two oil export terminals in the central oil crescent. These ports have been under force majeure since an a

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