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Tankers line up at Kuwait oil port after strike ends

Six supertankers have lined up at Kuwait's crude export terminal to load oil on Wednesday, April 20, as the country's oil and gas sector gradually returns to normal after workers ended a three-day strike that had slashed crude production.Kuwaiti oil and gas workers walked out on Sunday and cut the OPEC member's crude production by nearly half and disrupted its refining operations. Kuwait has raised its output to 1.6 million barrels per day (bpd) on Wednesday, industry sources said, up from 1.1 million bpd on Sunday. The country produced 2.8 million bpd in March. "There are still some lifters who worry about oil loading," said a trader with a north Asian company Seven Very Large Crude Carriers have arrived at Mina al-Ahmadi port since Saturday, shipping data on Thomson Reuters Eikon showed.