LONDON: Libyan oil output is running at 155,000 barrels per day, a spokesman for the National Oil Corporation said on Thursday.
Protests have brought Libya's oil production to a near standstill since they began last summer, with the OPEC exporter now producing some 10 percent of its 1.6 million bpd capacity.
"Production is from the offshore fields, Messla, Sarir there is still a bit... Sirte is still producing more than 10,000 barrels. Sirte goes to Brega port," Mohamad El Harari told reporters at a conference in London.
All of Libya's export terminals were open with the exception of the largest - Es Sider and Ras Lanuf - which remain held by a federalist rebel force.
Two ports that reopened in April as part of a deal between the rebels and the government were currently not exporting crude but were expected to resume soon, he said.
No oil was being exported from the port of Zuetina because the storage tanks there were empty and the connecting fields had yet to restart, he said.
A standoff at the eastern-most port of Hariga was in the process of being resolved and Harari said he expected oil exports from there to resume soon.
Libya's two smallest refineries at Tobruk and Brega were operating on limited amounts of crude. The larger refinery at Zawiya, which supplies the capital Tripoli, was also open and being supplied with crude from storage and Brega.
Libya's new NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanallah told the conference that Libya was still importing a lot of gasoil to power its electricity generation as well as gasoline to make up for the domestic refinery shortfall.
The two main western oilfields, El Shararah and El Feel remained closed due to separate protests that have been going on and off for months.
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