Tripoli, 16 March 2013:
Oil Minister Abdulbari Al-Arusi today, Saturday, denied reports that production at Waha Oil’s Gialo 59 field was stopped . . .[restrict]as a result of protests. According to the Libyan news agency LANA, he said that the field had been producing normally.
For much of last week there, protestors from nearby Jalu tried to block access to the oil field, demanding that service companies employ local staff and vehicles.
The protests ended yesterday, Friday.
In December, protestors at the Akakus-Reposol Shahara oil field near Obari in south-west Libya stopped production in a similar dispute about using local labour. At the time, Prime Minister Ali Zeidan said that the protests at cost $350 million in lost revenues. [/restrict]
