A tanker sailed from Libya with a crude cargo bound for Italy after a halt in fighting between rival armed forces enabled the OPEC country to resume exports from its third-largest oil port for the first time since 2014, according to Bloomberg.
The Seadelta left the port of Ras Lanuf overnight Tuesday with 781,000 barrels of crude, Nasser Delaab, petroleum operations inspector at Harouge Oil Operations, said by phone. The vessel earlier had to interrupt the loading and move offshore due to a clash over control of the terminal. A second tanker, the Syra, began taking on 600,000 barrels of crude at Ras Lanuf on Wednesday and was to set sail after a 10-hour loading, Delaab said.
The Seadelta is expected to arrive in Trieste, Italy, on Sept. 24, according to ship-tracking data on Bloomberg.
Libya has boosted crude production by more than 70 percent since August as some oil fields resumed output and other ports also reopened for their first overseas loadings in more than two years. The nation’s crude output rose to 450,000 barrels a day, Ibrahim Al-Awami, NOC’s head of oil measurement department, said by phone on Tuesday. Production was 260,000 barrels a day last month, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
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