On 13 July the Tripoli-based prime minister Abdel Hamid Dubaiba sacked the country's oil chief NOC boss Mustafa Sanallah replacing him with the Colonel Gadaffi-era governor of the central bank Farhat Bengdara...
Aoun's claim that production only stands at 100 000 b/d appears exaggerated and is possibly designed to help him in the private war he is waging with NOC chairman Mustafa Sanallah...
He immediately followed it up with a meeting with the head of the NOC Mustafa Sanalla in what was seen as an act of solidarity with him and the Tripoli NOC (AC Vol 60 No 5 Haftar puts south in the game)...
Despite Serraj's attempts to negotiate NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla refused to turn the pumps on again insisting there had to be a new protection force at Sharara and that those involved in the takeover be disciplined...
National Oil Corporation's well-regarded chairman Mustafa Sanalla has publicly criticised the GNA (his titular chief) other official bodies and powerful individuals for subverting payments and forcing their control over fuel distribution...
This gesture was much appreciated and the event attracted members of the Presidency Council Foreign Minister Mohamed Tahir Siala and the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanalla one of few Libyan officials to have retained genuine national and international respect...
In spite of a furious reaction from National Oil Corporation Chairman Mustafa Sanalla who in a leaked letter threatened to 'derecognise' the GNA if the deal went ahead the arrangement has been concluded and formally accepted by the NOC...
For instance Oil and Gas Minister Mashallah Zwei has no observable control over NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla despite the fact that they occupy offices in the same building in Tripoli (AC Vol 55 No 24 A tale of two cities)...
Yet it was not until the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting in Vienna on 27 November that Deputy Prime Minister Abdel Rahman el Taher introduced El Mabrouk Bou Seif to journalists as the replacement for the Tripoli-based NOC Chairman Mustafa Sanalla...
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