Libya’s battered oil industry crisis appears to be escalating again, with armed separatist militants who have shut down vital facilities in the east since July now seeking to sell oil from rebel-controlled terminals, while the navy drove off with shellfire a Maltese-flagged tanker that tried to illegally load at one of the blockaded ports. The militias, who have set up their own “official government of Cyrenaica,” named after the Roman province that covered eastern Libya, vowed in a letter sent to major international oil trading companies that they would “fully ensure the security and safety of any ship or tanker that will enter Libyan waters for oil lifting” at the major eastern port of es-Sider. That pledge rang a little hollow Sunday after the Libyan navy, controlled by the government in Tripoli in western Libya, fired warning shots at the tanker Baku and […]