The fighting at the ports has resulted in a fall in Libyan oil production to about 600,000 barrels per day from about 700,000 bpd.

Control of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider may not revert to the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in Tripoli, according to one official in Benghazi.

Libyan oil output has dropped to less than one-half the level of 1.6