Libya: Time to pass a new petroleum law?

Libya’s tired and etiolated governance structures are more than usually dependent on personalities and personal relationships. However, if new oil and gas minister Mohamed Aoun and National Oil Corporation chairman Mustafa Sanalla can get over their mutual antipathy, the return of sovereign authority to the sector after more than a decade opens the way to achieving a crucial reform that has been under discussion since the days of the late Qadhafi-era NOC chairman Shukri Ghanem.