By Callum Paton and Seraj Essul.
Tripoli, 30 April 2014:
The second oil tanker to arrive at Marsa Al-Hariga oil terminal at Tobruk . . .[restrict]is expected to leave today with a shipment of 850,000 barrels of oil.
Abdel-Jalil Al-Mayouf of the Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO) which operates from Hariga told the Libya Herald that the tanker, the Liberian flagged Yannis P, had arrived at the port yesterday at about 3 pm. He added that usually it took 24 hours for loading to be completed at Hariga and as such he expected the ship to cast off soon to its destination in France.
No tankers have yet arrived at the eastern port of Zueitina where force majeure was lifted by the National Oil Corporation (NOC) two days ago. A senior engineer at the port, Ahmed Al-Agouri, told this newspaper that Zueitina was ready to begin shipping oil as soon as tankers arrived but that he did not know when that would be.
The first shipment of oil to leave from Hariga departed over two weeks ago. The reopening of the ports came at the end of an eight month stand-off between forces under the leadership of the eastern autonomy movement the Cyrenaica Political Bureau and the Government. The deadlock slashed the country’s oil production and exports which stood at 1.5 million barrels per day in 2012 following the revolution. [/restrict]
