Libyan oil production resumes amid peace talks between rival factions

A Libyan oil worker, works at a refinery inside the Brega oil complex, in Brega, eastern Libya (Hussein Malla/AP)

Libya’s national oil company announced it was resuming production at the country’s largest oil field as rival officials from eastern and western Libya began peace talks, part of preliminary negotiations ahead a UN-brokered dialogue set to take place next month.

The National Oil Corporation said it lifted force majeure, a legal manoeuvre that lets a company get out of its contracts because of extraordinary circumstances, at the southwestern Sharara oil field.