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Thursday, June 11, 2020
Following the restart of production at the El Feel oilfield just a few days ago, production at the field has come to a halt once again. According to National Oil Corp (NOC), the commander of the “Khalid bin al-Walid Battalion”, Yousif Hassan al-Tabawi, coerced workers at El Feel oilfield to stop production at the field again, only a few days after the Hamada valve was reopened.”
NOC charges this is a serious criminal act against the Libyan people and its interests. “It demonstrates again the failure of the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) to carry out their legal duties of protecting the oil sector’s facilities and workers. The PFG has become like a militia that carries out orders of illegitimate leaders in order to serve foreign interests.
“NOC again warns that it will prosecute criminals and take all legal procedures against them. Whoever works to destroy the economy and the future of the country must pay the price of their crimes.”
The same situation was seen over the week at the Al-Sharara oilfield which began production only to stop again a few days later due to militant activity.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of NOC, Eng. Mustafa Sanalla, met on June 10 in Tripoli, with the Chairman of the Management Committee of the Akakos Oil Operations Company, Mr. Nouri Al-Seid, in and members of the Board of Directors, Mr. Abulgasem Shengher and Mr Elamari M. Elamari.
During the meeting, the safety of workers and the current security conditions in the oil field of Al-Sharara were discussed in light of the deteriorating security conditions at the field and the entry of dozens of armed men with weapons and ammunition, some of them were intoxicated , in a flagrant violation of the precautionary measures of the Corona pandemic , Also developments were discussed regarding the suspension of production operations carried out under the chaotic armed gunmen, under command of the so-called 166 battalion .
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