Libya could export oil again, but only temporarily. Eastern commander Khalifa Haftar will allow ports to restart operations in order to dispose of stored fuel and gas, Naji al-Maghrabi, head of an oil-facilities guard linked to Haftar’s Libyan National Army, said late Tuesday in a televised statement. This will help to alleviate electricity shortages in the east of the country by freeing up fuel for the plants, he said. “The instructions were to allow for the emptying of tanks holding crude and condensate stored at the oil ports to be loaded and exported,” Haftar’s Libyan National Army spokesman, Ahmed al-Mismari, said in a video post on his Facebook page on Wednesday. “The decision taken yesterday doesn’t mean the reopening of fields or the resumption of exports.” Officials at the state-run National Oil Corp., which has imposed force majeure on most of Libya’s crude shipments, weren’t immediately available […]