I thought the US government was backing General Haftar in this fight...have they switched sides again?
Perhaps this states it clearer:
Libya’s internationally-recognized government asked companies buying oil from ports under its control to deal with its administration, a move seen as an effort to weaken a rival, Islamist-backed cabinet.
Al Mabrook Bu Seif, the chairman of National Oil Corp. appointed by the elected government, said his management team is drafting a loading program that is separate from the one implemented so far, which was designed by another management team of the state-run company based in the capital, Tripoli.
“We will ask in a week or two the NOC clients to apply for the new loading program that covers the ports under control of the legal government,” he said in a telephone interview late Tuesday from the eastern export terminal of Ras Lanuf.
What a damned joke. That government rules about 1/2 square mile. They will soon rule nothing after being annihilated by the missiles hillary left behind.