<article><p class="lead">Libya's crude output remains severely constrained by port and field blockades, with production now around 750,000 b/d, oil minister Mohamed Aoun told <i>Argus</i>. </p><p>Aoun — who serves in Abdelhamid Dbeibeh's Government of National Unity (GNU) — said efforts to negotiate a restart of the affected assets continues. Demonstrators shut down the country's largest oil field — the 300,000 b/d El Sharara — and the 70,000 b/d El Feel field last month. The protests have also led to output declines at other smaller fields, and operations at the Marsa el-Brega and Zueitina oil export terminals have been placed under force majeure. </p><p>The demonstrators are demanding a fair and transparent distribution of state-owned oil firm NOC's revenues, the dismissal of NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla, and a handover of power from Dbeibeh to Fathi Bashagha, leader of rival administration the Government of National Stability (GNS). The GNU and GNS have made independent attempts to mediate a restart of production, but without success.</p><p><i>Argus</i> estimates that Libyan crude output <a href="https://direct.argusmedia.com/newsandanalysis/article/2331523">averaged 900,000 b/d last month</a> and exports were 840,000 b/d, both down by 160,000 b/d compared with March. </p><p class="bylines">By Ruxandra Iordache</p></article>
