The Libyan National Oil Corporation confirmed that emptying condensate tanks in the port of Brega contributed to maintaining the production of about 160 million cubic feet of gas per day, indicating that this is not sufficient to cover the consumption of stations north of Benghazi and Zueitina, which amounted to 250 million cubic feet.
The NOC stressed in a statement Friday that this measure did not and would not fundamentally solve the problem of load shedding of electricity, adding that it would only be solved by restoring production, and the corporation said that those closed prevented all national refineries from operating due to stopping oil production for eight consecutive months. The production of gas used to generate electric power, which forced the corporation to import diesel for power plants and drained the budgets.
The National Oil Corporation indicated that it is making every effort to deliver fuel to all parts of Libya and to power stations across the country despite the closure of local oil refineries and the depletion of budgets to import fuel during the last period to compensate for the stoppage in the production of local refineries as well as the consequent financial deficit.
The statement said that the “illegal” closure of the corporation’s oil installations had caused “tampering” with the Libyan economy and indifference to the miserable living situation that every citizen of Libya lives today because of this closure.
The NOC indicated that outlaw groups, east and west, smuggle diesel fuel across land and sea to profit at the expense of the Libyan people, calling on the control authorities in all land and sea ports to secure the borders and to refer the smugglers and those involved to justice, stressing that they will provide all the information they have about all smuggling attempts to the Attorney General’s office, in addition to exchanging information with various international bodies concerned with the matter to stop these illegal activities.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanallah, said: “We in the National Oil Corporation stand with our brothers in all parts of Libya in their unprecedented suffering, and we deeply regret that there are parties that place their personal interests and the interests of foreign countries above the interests of the Libyan people, but the corporation will continue as usual to alleviate this suffering.
