Operations at the major Libyan oilfield of Sharara were gradually resuming on Wednesday after the lifting of a two-year blockade on a pipeline leading from the field, a senior official said on Wednesday. Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) confirmed on Tuesday that pipelines leading from Sharara and El Feel fields had reopened, saying it hoped to add 270,000 barrels per day (bpd) to national production over the next three months. The production capacity of Sharara is about 330,000 bpd, and El Feel around 90,000 bpd, according to the NOC. “We started running the wells and then gradually we will start pumping to the Zawiya refinery,” the official, who works at the field, told Reuters on condition of anonymity. “The process will start normally this evening or tomorrow, once we make sure that everything is stable, since the […]