Libya funding blockade threatens paralysis of NOC payments

The national crisis provoked by the first successful export of crude from a terminal blockaded by former Petroleum Facilities Guard local commander turned federalist political leader Ibrahim Al-Jathran was not the only disaster brewing in Libya during the first weeks of March. While the now-dismissed prime minister Ali Zeidan was trying and failing to prevent the escape of the North Korean-flagged oil tanker Morning Glory with its cargo of crude from As Sidrah, a further even more debilitating blockade was being put in place in Tripoli.