After Libya's crude oil production rate reached 1.2 million barrels per day before the current wave of closures, according to an earlier statement by the National Oil Corporation in

January, and against the backdrop of the closure of fields and oil ports, the Ministry of Oil in the Libyan National Unity Government revealed that production fell below 200 thousand barrels per day

The Ministry stated in a statement posted on its Facebook account that current oil production ranges from 100 to 200 thousand barrels per day.

It noted that "only the maritime fields, the protectors and the fulfillment of which are of a total production range of 100- 200 thousand barrels per day".

Since mid-April, Libya's oil fields and ports have been experiencing a wave of closures from groups in the central and southern parts of the country that demand that the head of the Government of National Unity, Abdel Hamid al-Dubibah, hand over power to Fathi Bashagha, the head of the Parliament-backed Government.

Libya is experiencing an escalating political crisis in a dispute between two Governments, one headed by Bashaga, whose confidence was granted by the Parliament in Tobruk, far east of the country, last March, and the second by the Government of National Unity, which stemmed from political agreements sponsored by the United Nations, more than a year ago, and is presided over by Al-Dabib, who refuses to hand over power, except through elections.