German energy company Wintershall said it was able to restart production from a license area in Libya, which the government said was closed illegally. A spokesman for the company said production resumed from the C96 license area, part of the As-Sarah field, during the weekend. Production was closed in November following pressure from a municipality that complained the national oil company wasn’t meeting local demands. “At the beginning of November 2017, the community of Jakhira demanded that Wintershall should shut in production in C96,” the spokesman said in a statement emailed to UPI. “We immediately informed NOC about the blockade in November.” The Libyan National Oil Corp. said the closure resulted in a total loss of hundreds of […]