The government in eastern Libya plans later Monday to export its first cargo of crude since the country with Africa’s biggest known oil reserves split into rival power centers in the east and west. The tanker Distya Ameya is loading 650,000 barrels of crude pumped from the Messla and Sarir oil fields at eastern Libya’s Hariga port, Omran al-Zwai, spokesman for Arabian Gulf Oil Co., said by phone. The ship is due to sail later Monday to Malta, with the cargo sold to DSA Consultancy FZC, a company based in the United Arab Emirates, Nagi Elmagrabi, head of the National Oil Corp. in the east, said by phone. NOC’s leadership in Tripoli in western Libya called the shipment “illegal” and has informed the country’s incipient UN-backed unity government about the eastern administration’s attempt to export oil independently, an NOC spokesman, Mohamed Elharari, said by phone from the capital city. […]