Libya’s internationally recognized government in the east of the country asked oil companies to contact its National Oil Corp. to review loading contracts, amid a battle to snatch buyers from the rival administration in the west of the divided country. Oil companies should contact the marketing department of the NOC administration in the eastern city of Bayda by Nov. 11 to review loading contracts, according to an e-mailed statement from the elected government. The eastern government will take legal action against any company that deals with any authority other that the NOC administration in Bayda, it said. “Any contracts brokered with any other parties than the bodies authorized by the legal National Oil Corp. are considered legally null and void,” according to the statement. Libya, with Africa’s largest oil reserves, pumped about 1.6 million barrels a day of crude before a 2011 rebellion ended Muammar Qaddafi’s 42-year rule. Like […]