A labor strike at the Zawiya oil port in Libya delayed operations on Monday, but oil trading sources that spoke to Reuters said negotiations to end the disruptions are ongoing. The protests centered on salaries, one local source said. Reuters ship tracking data said the Seagrace tanker had been scheduled to load on Tuesday from the Zawiya port. The past week has seen blips of instability in the Libyan oil sector. Crude oil production at Sharara, the country’s biggest oil field, was briefly suspended last week after the pipeline that feeds the crude from the field to the Zawiya terminal was blocked. That’s what local sources told Bloomberg, without adding any detail regarding the cause of the pipeline’s closure. Production at Sharara restarted on March 5. Sharara pumps about 300,000 bpd, which is close to a third of Libya’s total 1.1-million-bpd production. The field has experienced several outages over […]