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Meanwhile, Isis has deployed near the south-western town of Awbari, threatening the main western oilfields at Sharara and El Feel.
Haftar's ragtag forces are better organized than rivals and easily took over the south, including the biggest oilfield Sharara, through negotiations rather than fighting.
"Lebanese politics, especially since Nasrallah carved out his role, has become his very own circus," said Professor Sharara, the Lebanese sociologist.
The LNA launched an offensive in the southern Fezzan region in January 2019, during which the LNA captured El Sharara in February.
El Sharara has been closed since December when it was seized by the members of the Maghawir Brigade, a Gaddafi-era armed unit.
While Hezbollah does not discuss military matters, Waddah Sharara, a columnist for the pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat and a descendant of Shiite clerics, said it has 3,000 regular fighters and up to 12,000 irregulars.
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Al-Sharara field, 560 miles south of Tripoli, is capable of producing 315,000 barrels of crude a day – about a third of Libya's total current output.
At a festival on Monday, its leaders promised to open the valves on a critical pipeline connecting the El-Sharara and El-Feel oil fields with the Zawiya and Mellitah export terminals that mostly supply southern Europe.
The international silence that met his rapid military advance cross southern Libya this year, including the capture of the giant el-Sharara and el-Feel oil fields, only encouraged him to press on to Tripoli.
The NOC wants to drive oil production from 1m barrels a day to as high as 2.1m by 2021, but the conflict over al-Sharara oil field puts that objective in doubt.
As a result a fresh brawl is brewing in the Saharan oasis of Ubari, which sits at the gates of the al-Sharara oilfield, largest of them all.Oil production has fallen and become much more volatile; it can be 800,000 barrels one day and 100,000 the next.
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