Libya will be increasing oil output by a third in the near future – bringing national production to 900,000 barrels per day, according to spokesperson Ashraf Ali of the Presidential Council of the Libyan Government of National Accord. Ali’s comments to the Tunisian Arab Presse come as the Libyan National Army (LNA) from the state’s eastern government report thwarting an attack near the country’s major oil ports last Wednesday – signaling the renewal of a factional conflict that could cause domestic stability to shatter. The North African country, once a 1.6-million-barrel exporter of sweet crude, which requires only little refining, has faced an uphill battle rebuilding output since the collapse of its political and civil infrastructure after the 2011 death of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Just as a fragile stability from LNA leader General Khalifa Haftar’s handover of Libyan ports to the National Oil Company (NOC) began to emerge over […]