The oil tanker Nord Nightingale carried a cargo of gasoil, a fuel used for heating or refined into diesel, to the rebel-held port of Benghazi in Libya, said the company operating the vessel, Bloomberg reports.The 183-meter (600-foot) ship arrived at the port July 16 to unload its cargo and departed yesterday, Jens Christophersen, vice president at Hellerup, Denmark-based Norient Product Pool, said by phone today. The tanker was hired to carry 30,000 metric tons of the fuel, he said, declining to name the company that made the booking.
The shipment is at least the second this month, according to data gathered by Bloomberg. The tanker Delos arrived at Benghazi July 8 to unload 30,000 tons of gasoline, after which it delivered 8,000 tons to Tobruk, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. That ship was hired by Vitol Group, a privately held energy trader, the person said.
The rebels received four cargoes of gasoline and four of diesel in May, while ports held by Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi got none, according to Bloomberg surveys of traders and shipbrokers. A typical gasoline cargo amounts to 34 million liters (9 million gallons), enough to fill about 650,000 cars.
Libyan refineries produced 5.2 million tons of diesel and gasoline in 2008, according to the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based adviser to industrialized nations. The plants will probably process no more than 90,000 barrels of oil a day this summer, compared with 370,000 barrels normally, the IEA said in a report in May.
Libyan oil production fell to 200,000 barrels a day in June, compared with an average of 1.55 million in 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Output in what was once Africa’s third-biggest crude producer has been disrupted by the fighting that erupted in February.
The shipment is at least the second this month, according to data gathered by Bloomberg. The tanker Delos arrived at Benghazi July 8 to unload 30,000 tons of gasoline, after which it delivered 8,000 tons to Tobruk, according to a person with direct knowledge of the deal. That ship was hired by Vitol Group, a privately held energy trader, the person said.
The rebels received four cargoes of gasoline and four of diesel in May, while ports held by Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi got none, according to Bloomberg surveys of traders and shipbrokers. A typical gasoline cargo amounts to 34 million liters (9 million gallons), enough to fill about 650,000 cars.
Libyan refineries produced 5.2 million tons of diesel and gasoline in 2008, according to the International Energy Agency, a Paris-based adviser to industrialized nations. The plants will probably process no more than 90,000 barrels of oil a day this summer, compared with 370,000 barrels normally, the IEA said in a report in May.
Libyan oil production fell to 200,000 barrels a day in June, compared with an average of 1.55 million in 2010, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Output in what was once Africa’s third-biggest crude producer has been disrupted by the fighting that erupted in February.