Libya's Hariga oil export port is still closed due to a strike by security guards demanding salary payments, a port official said on Monday.

"There are talks with the guards to end the protest but the port is still closed," said the official, who asked not to be named.

The port, located in the eastern city of Tobruk, shut down on the weekend after the guards complained they had not been paid in time, a port official said on Sunday.

The terminal used to export 120,000 barrels a day. It is the country's last functioning export port apart from two offshore fields. – Reuters