Libya’s NOC Chief: If war on Tripoli persists, oil production could drop by 90%Libyan oil production currently stands at almost 1.3mn b/d, but ongoing regional hostilities could put the majority of this output at risk, Chairman of NOC Mustafa Sanalla said Saturday. “Unfortunately if the [political] situation will continue like this, I’m afraid that maybe 95pc of production will be lost”, Sanalla said in Jeddah today. Sanalla is attending the next meeting of the Opec, non-Opec Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC), which oversees compliance with the ongoing production cuts. Sanalla expressed concern over Libya’s oil industry succumbing to the armed clashes that have fractured Libya since early April, when the forces led by Khalifa Haftar set for Tripoli against the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). He added that the war should be stopped, in order to keep production running.

Source: Libya Today May 18, 2019 22:41 UTC