Crude oil production at the Sharara field in western Libya – the country’s biggest – has resumed, an anonymous source told Reuters , and the force majeure that the National Oil Corporation had placed on the field could be lifted today. Last week, unnamed armed factions had blocked production at the Sharara and Wafa fields in western Libya, cutting the country’s total output by 252,000 bpd . Sharara alone produced 220,000 bpd before the shutdown, making up a huge chunk of Libya’s overall 700,000-bpd production. It started pumping oil after a two-year pause last December. When Sharara was restarted in December 2016, NOC said that it planned to increase output from it to the 330,000 bpd it pumped before the civil war, aiming for a national total of 900,000 bpd in the next few months and 1.1 million bpd at the end of 2017. The anonymous source told Reuters […]