Firefighters have put down a blaze at two storage crude tanks at
Libya's largest terminal but three are still burning following an
attack last week, according to an official and state-oil company
websites.
A rocket ignited fire last week at the Es Sider terminal
following an attack by Islamists militia backed by the rebel
government that now controls Tripoli, interrupting a five-week
decline in global oil prices.
Fires at two storage tanks at the 400,000-barrels-a-day Es Sider
have been extinguished, the websites of the Sirte Oil Co., a state
oil company, and of Waha Oil Co., which controls the port, said
late Sunday. But three tanks are still burning, according to the
websites and a spokesman for the National Oil Co. on Monday.
The fire has destroyed 800,000 barrels of crude oil--equivalent
to more than half of Libya's production of 385,000 barrels a day,
state agency Lana News said late Sunday.
A recovery in Libya's oil production to as high as 900,000
barrels a day has been cut short by fighting between Islamist
militia and an internationally recognized government based in
eastern Libya.
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