Libya may be forced to cut oil production within days if a stand-off between eastern and western factions that has prevented loadings at the Marsa al-Hariga port continues, an official from oil firm NOC in Tripoli told Reuters on Thursday. The Tripoli-based NOC official said that remaining storage capacity at the port was limited and filling up fast. An official from the Marsa al-Hariga port said that tanks at Hariga were 7-10 days away from reaching their full capacity. With no tankers loading crude at the port, Libya will be forced to shut in around 120,000 barrels per day (bpd) of production, or the export capacity of the port. OPEC member Libya is already producing less than a quarter of the 1.6 million bpd it produced in 2011. Libya has […]