A tanker had to leave Libya’s Hariga export terminal without oil after members of the Petroleum Facilities Guard stopped the vessel from loading crude amid an ongoing strike over delayed salary payments, a source with knowledge of the situation told Bloomberg on Monday. In just a few months, Libya has managed to restore its oil production back to 1.25 million bpd , the level the OPEC member exempted from the OPEC+ cuts was pumping before the eighth-month-long oil port blockade in January 2020. However, the North African oil producer has struggled to keep that level over the past month due to strikes from the Petroleum Facilities Guard over unpaid salaries and the lack of funds for restoration and maintenance of Libya’s oil infrastructure. According to Bloomberg’s source, the Front Cruiser tanker of the Suezmax type had to leave the port of Hariga without loading oil because of the strike […]