Libya’s National Oil Corporation has emptied storage tanks as a precaution after attacks by ISIS (Islamic State) on the country’s two biggest oil ports last week.
An official from the company said the tanks in Ras Lanuf had been emptied and moved to a safer location.
Mohamed al-Manfi said: “We have taken all the oil stored in the tanks there (Ras Lanuf) to a safer location.”
Earlier this month a massive truck bomb exploded near a police base in the western Libya town of Zilten, killing at least 60 police officers and wounding around 200 others.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but a local Islamic State affiliate has been trying to gain a foothold in Zliten, spreading westward from its central stronghold of
Sirte along the North African country’s coast.