"We will return to production in the very next few days but exports will take longer," Mustafa el-Huni, who heads the economy, finance and oil commission at the National Transitional Council (NTC), said.

But he added that "resuming Libya's normal production of 1.6 million barrels of oil per day (bpd) is still far off."

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