Libya’s deadlocked oil crisis, with rebel warlords refusing to reopen blockaded oil terminals along the Mediterranean coast, is causing jitters on international energy markets as oil exports are reduced to a trickle. The beleaguered government of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said last week that the export terminals in the eastern cities of Ras Lanuf, Es Sider and Zueitina, which account for 60 percent of Libya’s oil exports, would reopen Sunday. But rebel chieftain Ibrahim Jedran, who once commanded the 30,000-strong Petroleum Facilities Guard assigned to protect the very facilities he has shut down for months, refused to allow them to resume operations until the Tripoli government recognizes eastern Libya as an autonomous region. Eastern Libya, known as Cyrenaica, holds most of the North African country’s oil reserves of 76.4 billion barrels, the largest in Africa and the fifth largest in the world. “International […]