Workers at Libya’s El Sharara oilfield are ready to resume production with an initial output of 80,000 barrels a day but are still waiting for approval from state oil firm NOC, a field engineer and trader said on Wednesday. “There is no technical obstacle to the restart of production. The issue is security,” an NOC spokesman said. The 315,000-barrels-a-day field deep in Libya’s southern desert has been closed since December when state guards and tribesmen seized it to make financial demands. NOC said on Tuesday it was ready to lift force majeure, a contractual waiver for clients declared in December, if armed men behind the closure were evicted. The Tripoli-based government had said on the same day it was working with NOC to do so. In a possible sign that work might resume soon, a plane landed on Tuesday at the nearby El Feel oilfield […]