Libyan oil corporation responds to Al-Mishri’s “claims”: “Fabrication of battles”
The National Oil Corporation (NOC) has strongly attacked televised remarks by Libyan Prime Minister Khalid al-Mishri, calling them “fabricated battles.”
al-Mishri’s statements, which were strongly rejected by the Oil Corporation, affected the Board of Directors of the Corporation, which enjoyed rare Libyan approval. Since his appointment in July 2023, he was able to restore oil production, which had been halted for several months over the past year, and carried out necessary and postponed maintenance work on the sites and wells until production reached more than 1.2 million barrels a day.
In a statement in response to al-Mishri’s statements, the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) regretted “the inappropriate level of Khalid al-Mishri, the head of the High Council of State, in settling personal accounts with an independent sovereign Libyan national institution.”
In a television interview, al-Mishri repeated “false allegations that have nothing to do with the truth about the National Oil Corporation’s subordination to one of the states, the acquisition of special privileges in the Libyan oil sector, and the chairman of the board of directors of the National Oil Corporation’s nationality,” it said.
The organization refutes all these allegations, stressing that they are “totally baseless,” adding that “Al-Mishri is leading a systematic and fabricated campaign aimed at hitting the Libyan oil sector, destabilizing its administrative stability and introducing this strategically vital sector into political conflicts in which the Mishri is engaged and directed for partisan and ideological ends that no one hides.”
The National Oil Corporation said that, while making this statement to the national public, it condemns and rejects these lies, and hopes that the Supreme Council of State will force its president to stop using his official capacity to settle his personal accounts and engage in unfair battles.”
The National Oil Corporation and its chairman have reserved the right to resort to the national judiciary if the buyer does not stop his allegations.
Libya currently produces more than 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd), while production before the fall of Muammar Kadhafi’s regime in 2011 reached the highest levels (1.6 million bpd).
In Libya, hardly a week passes before the new leadership of the Libyan oil sector achieves achievements in the sector, after the overthrow of Mustafa Sanalla, the former president of the Oil Corporation last July 7th, on the basis of demands by the people of the oil areas, to dismiss him. He ran the sector for eight years, in violation of Libyan law.
