For the second time in two weeks, Libya’s El Feel oilfield has been shut down, due to an unlawful closure of a valve on an oil export pipeline, Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said on Thursday. The 73,000-barrels-per-day El Feel field was shut down in the middle of last week due to airstrikes, after the eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA), led by Khalifa Haftar, retaliated after forces loyal to the UN-backed Libyan government in Tripoli allegedly took control of the oilfield in the southwest. “Production will remain shuttered until military activity ceases and all military personnel withdraw from NOC’s area of operations,” NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla said last week after the airstrikes on El Feel. A day later, military activity at the field stopped and production resumed, NOC said , with Sanalla noting that Libyan oilfields are vital sources of revenues for the country and that the fields “must […]