Oil Exports from Libya's Mellitah on Force Majeure

published:10/12/2019 07:04 GMT

Crude loadings from Libya's Mellitah port are under force majeure due to the closure of the El Feel oil field, a spokesman at state-owned National Oil Corporation said Monday. The spokesman said force majeure was declared Sunday evening after Libya's vulnerable El Feel, or Elephant, oil field was shut down again December 5, due to an "unlawful valve closure" on an export pipeline causing a loss of 73,000 b/d. Crude from El Feel is pumped via an export pipeline to Mellitah. Crude exports from...More