LIBYA- Libya’s eastern oil port of Hariga has closed due to a strike by security guards over salary payments, forcing a tanker docked at port to stop loading crude.
An official source told Reuters that port guards had complained they have not received salaries for several months.
The eastern port of Zueitina was working normally with a tanker loading some 700,000 barrels of crude, another official said, meanwhile, another source said that port of Zueitina was working normally with a tanker loading some 700 barrels of crude.
OmranZewi, the Arabian Gulf Oil Company (Agoco) spokesperson said Hariga Port that is managed by company was supposed to export 5 million barrels of oil in April 2015.
Agoco is one of the largest oil companies owned by Libyan Oil Corporation and manages eight oil fields and ports to export crude oil. Which its production exceeds 400,000 barrels of crude oil daily.
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