Libya is shutting down production at its biggest oilfield after tribesmen and state security guards seized the El Sharara facility, field engineers and protesters said on Sunday, but there was no confirmation from state oil firm NOC. If true, the shutdown at the 315,000 barrel-per-day field would also force the closure of the El-Feel oilfield, located in the same remote and lawless southern desert. El-Feel usually pumps around 70,000 bpd. One field engineer said production was being shut, without giving a time frame or figures. A spokesman for the tribesmen which call themselves the Fezzan Anger Movement, Mohamed Maighal, also said the field was closed. But, adding to the confusion amid two days of contradicting comments, an oil source said late on Sunday that the field was still operational as NOC was trying to negotiate to avoid a full shutdown. He gave no output figure. El […]