Libya restarts oil exports from biggest port as fighting rages in Benghazi


  • World
  • Thursday, 21 Aug 2014

BENGHAZI Libya (Reuters) - Libya has restarted oil exports from its biggest port for the first time since the end of a year-long blockade, a boost to the central government which is struggling with a wave of clashes in the capital.

The OPEC member's oil production has risen in the past few weeks to around 560,000 barrels a day as ports in the east have resumed work under a deal with a group of federalist rebels, adding to a crude market that is already well supplied.

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