A frigate of the French Navy has prevented a tanker from loading refined oil products at a Libyan port as part of a sale to an UAE-registered company, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing four Western diplomats. The French frigate was on an EU mission to supervise an arms embargo against Libya and to prevent illegal sales of oil and refined petroleum products out of Libya, with which the warring factions in the country could fund their campaigns, according to Bloomberg’s sources. The tanker was stopped at sea as it was heading for the port of Tobruk in eastern Libya close to the border with Egypt. The tanker has been idling in the area for a week and hasn’t continued on its course to Tobruk, the Western diplomats told Bloomberg. Libya’s oil industry is in total disarray after a group of paramilitary formations affiliated with the Libyan National Army (LNA) […]