An oil tanker started loading crude at Libya ’s eastern port of Hariga as the region exports oil for the first time since July after civil unrest decimated the North African country’s production and shipments. The Aegean Dignity started to load Hariga terminal at 11 a.m. local time, Mohamed Elharari, spokesman for state-run National Oil Corp., said by phone today. The operation will take about 24 hours. The shipment is for Italy , according to a statement from NOC subsidiary Arabian Gulf Oil. “This is the first loading in around nine months from any of the rebel-controlled ports in the east and the first concrete positive from the deals announced just over a week ago,” Richard Mallinson, Energy Aspects analyst in London , said by phone yesterday. “But it is worth remembering that the market is only taking this as a very limited positive development” because other terminals remain […]