Libya's El Feel Oilfield Reopens After Two-Month Protest
Officials did not disclose more details about the agreement with the protesters.
Protesters shut down the field in late March to the western Mellitah port as part of a nationwide disruption to oilfields and ports to pressure the government over a range of political and financial demands.
The field is jointly operated by state-owned National Oil Corp and Italy's ENI and was producing around 85,000 bpd before the shutdown.
Hariga Port Remains Blocked
Libya's eastern Hariga oil export port remained blocked by state security guards who were said they had not been paid for months.
A spokesman for state-oil firm AGOCO, which runs the port and connecting oilfields, said the finance ministry had paid out the salaries but the firm was still waiting for the guards to confirm their protest was over.
Last year, a group of rebels seized Hariga and three other eastern ports with the aim of exporting crude oil from there themselves. It took the government until April to reach an agreement with the rebels to relinquish Hariga and the Zueitina port and to restart exports from there, only for Hariga to be closed again last month by protesting security staff.
The rebels have kept shut the larger Ras Lanuf and Es Sider ports pending further talks with the government. A fourth eastern port, Zueitina, is technically open but there is no currently crude to load.
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