A protest has ended in Libya’s eastern oil port of Brega where locals had been demanding jobs at state-run Sirte Oil Co, a lawmaker and company official said. “We’ve reached an agreement with the protesters at Sirte Co,” said Idris Abdullah, a lawmaker from the House of Representatives who had been mediating. “The firm is back to work,” he said late on Monday. A group of protesters took over the company’s headquarters for several weeks asking for jobs, a common demand in a country struggling with chaos three years after the ouster of leader Muammar Gaddafi. A worker at Sirte Oil confirmed the protests had ended. Its media office was not available for immediate comment. Officials previously said production had not been affected but did not provide output data. Libya’s oil industry has been crippled by protests at oilfields and ports over political and financial demands. But output has risen to around 800,000 bpd from 200,000 bpd in the first half following a deal between the government and a group of rebels who had blockaded major eastern ports. The port of Brega, east of Benghazi, is used mainly for crude shipments to the western Zawiya refinery.