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An oil tanker is expected to load crude at Libya\u2019s Marsa el-Hariga terminal this week, the first since a blockade by eastern forces in January slashed the OPEC member\u2019s oil production to a trickle.<\/p>\n
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The Delta Hellas tanker will enter Libya\u2019s Hariga port on Wednesday and load 1 million barrels of oil from the port\u2019s storage, the Arabian Gulf Oil Co which operates the port said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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Eastern Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar said last week his forces would lift their eight-month blockade of oil exports, which depressed the OPEC member\u2019s production down to around 100,000 barrel per day (bpd).<\/p>\n
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Trading arm of China\u2019s Sinopec , Unipec- which prior to the blockade was one of the main lifters of Mesla and Sarir crude grades from the terminal- booked the tanker, two trading sources said.<\/p>\n
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Unipec also booked the Marlin Shikoku tanker, which according to Refinitiv Eikon shipping data is expected to arrive at Hariga on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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This comes as the National Oil Corporation (NOC) seeks to gradually boost production, with output expected to rise to around 260,000 bpd next week.<\/p>\n
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Before the blockade, Libya produced around 1.2 million bpd, or more than 1% of global production.<\/p>\n
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NOC, which said it would only resume at ports and oilfields that are free of military presence, has so far announced oil export resumption from the Hariga, Brega and Zueitina terminals.<\/p>\n
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(Reporting by Ayman al-Warfalli and Ahmad Ghaddar, editing by Louise Heavens and Tomasz Janowski)<\/em><\/p>\n maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An oil tanker is expected to load crude at Libya\u2019s Marsa el-Hariga terminal this week, the first since a blockade by eastern forces in January slashed the OPEC member\u2019s oil production to a trickle. The Delta Hellas tanker will enter Libya\u2019s Hariga port on Wednesday and load 1 million barrels of oil from the port\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[1404,11554,1258,1762,6141,953,897],"class_list":["post-18084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-crude","tag-hariga","tag-january","tag-libyas","tag-load","tag-port","tag-tanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/18085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}