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NOC boss Mustafa Sanalla down but not yet out despite his sacking

Mustafa Sanalla has been dismissed from the National Oil Corp (NOC). © Hamza Turkia/Xinhua News Agency/Newscom/MaxPPP

Mustafa Sanalla, the kingpin of the oil sector since 2014 who has already survived a previous attempt to dismiss him, has plenty of cards up his sleeve to make Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba back down once again on his decision to fire him. [...] (997 words)

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LIBYA
Abdelhamid Dabaiba
Abdul-Rahman Al-Swehli
Abulgasem Shengheer
Ahmed Ammar
Ali al-Deeb
Brega Oil Co
ENI
Farhat Omar Bengdara
Fathi Bashagha
Gaddafi
Hess
High Council of State
Hussein Safar
Jadallah al-Awkali
Khalifa Haftar
Khalifa Rajab Abdulsadeq
Libyan Central Bank
Libyan National Army
Masoud Suleiman Moussa
Mellitah Oil & Gas
Mohamed Aoun
Mohamed Tahar Issa
Murzuq Oil Services Co
Mustafa Sanalla
National Oil Corporation
Petroleum Facilities Guard
Repsol
Saddam Haftar
Siddiq al-Sour
TotalEnergies
Waha Oil
Zalaf Oil & Gas

Tripoli prosecutor probes NOC payments to oil trader BGN International

The Tripoli prosecutor general is investigating payments made by Libya's National Oil Company to a Dubai-based firm called BGN International. The several million dollars paid out were allegedly due to be used as a financing tool by the Haftar clan that dominates the east of the country.

Prosecutor General Siddiq al-Sour in Tripoli, 14 March 2018.

LIBYA Energy 21/02/2023

Rome-Tripoli gas deal reawakens threat of blockades

Both Libya's oil minister and the Libyan Cities and Tribes Supreme Council believe the recent gas deal between Italy and Libya goes against the country's interests. The East-leaning council, which has filed a complaint with a court in Tripoli, has been known to create blockades in the past.

ENI CEO Claudio Descalzi and NOC chief Farhat Bengdara with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni and the head of Libya's national unity government, Abdelhamid Dabaiba, Tripoli, Libya, 28 January 2023.

LIBYA Energy Politics 26/10/2022

Haftar mulls another oil blockade

Under pressure from his ally Egypt and fired up from the failed deal with Abdelhamid Dabaiba, strongman of eastern Libya Khalifa Haftar is threatening to pull out his trump card to regain his footing in the struggle for power:

Libya's Khalifa Haftar in Benghazi, Libya, 16 November 2021.

LIBYA Energy 19/09/2022

TotalEnergies still battling to get Libyan green light for Hess stake in Waha

Ten months after announcing it had increased its stake in Waha via the purchase of half of Hess's shares in the concession, the French oil major is still struggling to get Libya's oil ministry to give the deal its green light.

Oil barrels with a Russian flag. © Yalcin Sonat/Alamy banque d'images

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LIBYA RUSSIA Energy 01/09/2022

West worried as AGOCO-Zarubezhneft rapprochement picks up pace

At the request of Libya's National Oil Corp subsidiary AGOCO, the Russian Zarubezhneft group sent a delegation to Benghazi in August. The EU and the US are both concerned this move may spell the possibility of sanctioned Russian oil being transshipped.

LIBYA Energy 29/07/2022

New NOC boss Bengdara courts Russia's Zarubezhneft via AGOCO

Russia's state-owned oil company has been invited to dispatch a delegation to Benghazi to visit the head office of AGOCO, the NOC subsidiary that operates the Sarir and Messla fields. This rapprochement, discreetly supported by Khalifa Haftar, is a source of great concern to Washington and other Western nations.

Farhat Bengdara, newly appointed as chairman of the Libyan state National Oil Corp (NOC).

LIBYA Diplomacy 28/07/2022

Haftar builds alliances with western Libya militias

Khalifa Haftar's envoys conducted discreet negotiations in May and June with militias in western Libya. Discussions are being held in parallel with Riyadh and Cairo.

LIBYA Energy Politics 01/07/2022

Dabaiba and Haftar in secret negotiations to replace NOC boss Mustafa Sanalla

To try to win the support of army commander Khalifa Haftar, Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba, who is trying to hang on to his post, has offered to let him choose the next head of the national oil company.

Mustafa Sanalla, head of National Oil Corp (NOC).

LIBYA Energy Business 25/04/2022

Oil blockade: how over-eager US shot itself in the foot

In its hurry to get Libyan oil production on to a sure footing, the United States rushed through an arrangement intended to depoliticise management of the country's oil revenues. It forgot, however, about Khalifa Haftar, who responded by having two key oil fields shut down.

US Ambassador to Libya Richard Norland (l) with the head of the Libyan Central Bank, Al Seddik Omar al-Kabir, January 2022.

LIBYA Energy Business 22/10/2021

Oil reconstruction billions lie at heart of Aoun-Sanalla war

Oil minister Mohamed Aoun, who is still trying to oust NOC boss Mustafa Sanalla, is now targeting his management of a London-based structure in charge of distributing contracts to petroleum engineering majors.

Oil minister Mohamed Aoun (left) and the president of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sanalla (right).

LIBYA Energy 09/09/2021

What really went on behind NOC boss Sanalla's pseudo sacking

The chairman of the Libyan national oil company was suspended then brought back in the space of ten days. The whole affair proved to be an act staged by prime minister Dabaiba with help from his ally, the vice minister of hydrocarbons Al Abbar.

From left to right: Libyan Minister of Hydrocarbons Mohamed Aoun, Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU) Abdelhamid Dabaiba and NOC boss Mustafa Sanalla.

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Abdelhamid Dabaiba
Abdul-Rahman Al-Swehli
Abulgasem Shengheer
Ahmed Ammar
Ali al-Deeb
Brega Oil Co
ENI
Farhat Omar Bengdara
Fathi Bashagha
Gaddafi
Hess
High Council of State
Hussein Safar
Jadallah al-Awkali
Khalifa Haftar
Khalifa Rajab Abdulsadeq
Libyan Central Bank
Libyan National Army
Masoud Suleiman Moussa
Mellitah Oil & Gas
Mohamed Aoun
Mohamed Tahar Issa
Murzuq Oil Services Co
Mustafa Sanalla
National Oil Corporation
Petroleum Facilities Guard
Repsol
Saddam Haftar
Siddiq al-Sour
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