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Libya Threatens Force Majeure as Oil Guards Shut Fields

Libya’s National Oil Corporation is threatening to declare force majeure after members of the security force assigned to protect the country’s oil infrastructure shut a pipeline valve and halted production at two fields. Production has stopped completely at the Hamada and Tahara oilfields and at a pumping station after members of the Petroleum Facilities Guard closed a valve on the main Hamada-Zawiya crude pipeline, NOC said Tuesday. The shutdown could spread. The Petroleum Facilities Guard said it would impose partial production cuts…