Libya’s largest oilfield, Sharara, is stopping all operations, and the operator is evacuating the workers as a foreign employee had tested positive for the coronavirus after coming into contact with the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG), Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Monday. Sharara has not produced oil since January, when forces affiliated with the Libyan National Army (LNA) of eastern Libyan strongman General Khalifa Haftar occupied Libya’s oil export terminals and oilfields. Early in June, NOC resumed production at the 300,000-bpd Sharara oilfield after negotiating the opening of an oilfield valve. Just a day later, however, Sharara shuttered again , after an armed force had told the workers in the field to stop working. Sharara now stops all operations, including fuel supplies to the Obari power plant, NOC said today, expressing “its strong dissatisfaction with the continued militarization of its fields” after the commander of the southern region, […]