Libya’s internationally recognized government may block exports via oil companies that won’t deal with its new state oil company, an official said Tuesday. The government has been trying to consolidate power since the United Nations recognized it as Libya’s rightful ruling body in the wake of a civil war that split the country last year. Based in the war-torn North African nation’s eastern city of Baida, the government has formed its own national oil company, among other institutions. But the existing Libya National Oil Co. is based in Tripoli , where a group of militias known as Libya Dawn holds power. International oil companies and traders have maintained their longtime contacts with the established National Oil Co. and shunned the new one in the east, which is also called National Oil Co. Speaking to reporters Tuesday ahead of a meeting with oil companies the next day, the chief of […]