Executive of the Libyan National Oil Company, the National Oil Corporation (NOC), and Total met to discuss the rehabilitation and restart of the Mabruk Oil Field.

Both owners support the fast-tracking of the field’s rehabilitation and the operator is to reinstate the field and resume production. The rates of production in the short, medium and long-term were also discussed.

Present at the meeting was the Chairman of the NOC Board of Directors, Engineer Mustafa Sanalla, Total Director of Exploration and Production for Middle East, North Africa, Stephane Michel, and executives from Waha Oil Company and the Mabruk Operating Committee.

At the meeting, Michel said, “we are happy to visit Libya particularly after the improvement of the security situation and restoring stability to most Libyan cities, especially Tripoli the capital. I congratulate Messrs. Chairman and Members of the Board of Directors at the National Oil Corporation for the huge accomplishments that have been achieved by restoring the production rates to the levels that were before the blockades despite the difficult circumstances. We confirm that Total looks at Libya as one of the most important countries and destinations in the Mediterranean Sea for investment and establishing the mega-projects and we are proud of being one of NOC’s strategic partners. We are fully aware of the challenges that it faces of which the most important is the shortage of financial resources required for performing maintenance operations and resuming the significant projects that considerably support the Libyan economy. Total will continue working with the National Oil Corporation for its being the one who unified all Libyans and protected the oil wealth throughout the past years.”

The NOC Chairman remarked, “NOC and its partners are working with their full capacity to increase production rales and achieve the ambitious plans and goals of NOC to reach unprecedented production rates during the next years, which will contribute to restoring stability in the State of Libya. Once again, and on behalf of my colleagues Members of the Board of Directors at NOC I thank Total for all support which it provided to us in combating Coronavirus pandemic which reflected positively on our companies and local communities surrounding our operations. I emphasize that we seek to benefit from the expertise of Total in order to develop the Libyan oil sector, capacity building and knowledge transfer.”