The U.S. State Department has issued a statement urging the Libyan authorities and the militants who put a blockade on the country’s biggest oil field to resolve their differences so production could resume. The blockade earlier this week forced the National Oil Corporation to declare force majeure on the field, which produces around 315,000 bpd. In its statement, NOC said that production from the field will resume when “alternative security arrangements are put in place.” This force majeure follows another one from last week that covered exports from the blocked field that contributes almost a third of Libya’s national total. “The United States continues to monitor the situation at the Sharara oil field and echoes the UN Support Mission for Libya’s call for the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of armed elements in the area, which is crucial to allow oil production for the benefit of all Libyans to resume,” […]