Libya map- balance of forces and upstream infrastructure

Libya’s power-brokers jockey for position, with Sanalla’s NOC under siege as political consensus collapses


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Issue 453 - 28 Jan 2022 - By John Hamilton | 6 minute read

Everyone is playing their own game in the struggle for control over decision-making in Libya’s oil and gas sector. In the aftermath of the aborted 2021 general election, the Tobruk-based House of Representatives is attempting to end the mandate of Prime Minister Abdel Hamid Al-Dabaiba’s Tripoli-based Government of National Unity. So far National Oil Corporation (NOC) chairman Mustafa Sanalla has retained his grip, but he faces multiple attempts to limit his authority and undo the deals he struck to keep oil flowing. African Energy pieces together the roles played by Sanalla and Dabaiba alongside minister of oil and gas Mohamed Aoun and two powerful state institutions, the Libyan Audit Bureau and the Administrative Control Authority

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