Posted on 07/26/2016 11:51:49 AM PDT by bananaman22
The chief of staff of the Libyan army has warned foreign companies the army will fire at any non-Libyan tanker entering the country’s territorial waters. The warning comes after a spike in tensions in Libya brought about by a controversial deal struck by the so-called government of unity and the Libyan Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG).
Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) firmly believes the deal, struck by the UN-backed government and the PFG to reopen key ports was a mistake, NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla said in a letter to UN’s envoy to Libya Martin Kobler and to oil and diplomatic officials.
Brigadier General Abdel-Razek al-Nadhouri said NOC – its division on Benghazi – was the only party that was entitled to close any deals regarding Libya’s oil.
The PFG, which has been blocking ports across Libya, said on Friday it had agreed to a deal with the Government of National Accord (GNA), backed by the UN, to reopen the Ras Lanuf, Es Sider and Zueitina oil ports within days. PFG head Ibrahim Jadhran started leading blockades of ports in 2013 in what he has said was trying to prevent corruption in oil shipments.
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the army will fire at any non-Libyan tanker entering the country’s territorial waters.
Talk about monopolization :)
It’s a tankerless job, but someone’s got to do it
No worries, the US Navy will escort all Obama approved tankers handling that ISIS funding, renewable energy crude.
Could be a whole lot of more blowing stuff up in Libya soon!
If you’re a warlord, you expect to control the oil.
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