With leader gone, recovery will speed up: Libya's oil chief

TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya's oil chief said the death of ousted leader Muammar Gadhafi and an end to NATO's bombing campaign would hasten the return of the OPEC country's oil to world markets by improving road links and quelling security concerns.

"This will improve transport to fields and we can now concentrate on rebuilding the sector," the chairman of the National Oil Company (NOC), Nouri Berouin, told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.

The oil chief said daily output had risen to 430,000 barrels a day after two more eastern oilfields operated by Benghazi-based Agoco had successfully been restarted following delays last week.