Libya: Haftar's LNA says blockade on oil will continue

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Renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) has said it would maintain a blockade on oil production and exports that the National Oil Corp (NOC) says has cost the country $6.5bn in lost revenue.

Libya has the largest oil reserves in Africa and can produce 1.2 million barrels of crude oil a day [File: Esam Omran al-Fetori/Reuters]

Friday's loading of a first tanker since January with oil from storage had force majeure on all exports, though it warned that damage to fields meant it would take a long time to fully restore production.

However, LNA spokesman Ahmed Mismari on Saturday said in an online statement the country's oilfields and ports are "closed until the orders of the Libyan people are implemented", laying out conditions to lift the blockade.

Mismari demanded that oil revenue should flow into a new bank account outside Libya to be distributed between regions; that it should not fund what he called "terrorists and mercenaries"; and an audit of central bank accounts to investigate past spending.

Libya has been split since 2014 between the Turkey-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli, which is recognised by the United Nations, and the LNA in the east, supported by the United Arab Emirates, Russia and Egypt.

Under existing arrangements backed by the UN, oil is produced and exported by the NOC with revenues flowing to the Central Bank of Libya.

Both institutions are based in Tripoli, but the money funds public sector bodies and the salaries of state employees in all parts of the country across front lines.

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