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Sanalla accuses German oil firm of bad faith and political interference

byNigel Ash
May 11, 2017
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By Libya Herald reporters.

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Tunis 10 May 2017:

The tussle between the National Oil Corporation and the Presidency Council (PC) over who runs the oil industry  took a new turn today when NOC chief Mustafa Sanalla claimed Germany’s Wintershall, with whom NOC is in dispute, had helped draw up Resolution 270 by which the PC has sought to trim the state oil company’s powers.

Sanalla said the document had been “drafted with the assistance of Wintershall to the benefit of Wintershall” Reuters reported.  The Resolution, which is being bitterly opposed by Sanalla, seeks to take away key functions from NOC including the negotiation of exploration and production sharing (EPSA) deals.

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NOC said today that Wintershall was in breach of a 2010 deal to revise downwards it share of production. It asserted in a statement: “If Wintershall kept to its agreements including seeking a resolution by arbitration, production and exports could continue. Instead, it has tried to interfere in Libyan internal politics and to take advantage of the weakness of the state.”

Kassel-based Wintershall, a subsidiary of the giant BASF conglomerate, has long enjoyed production-sharing terms more favourable than other foreign oil companies in Libya. It has two main concessions NC-96 and NC-97 (also referred to as C96 and C97). It also holds a ten percent share in the 45,000 bpd offshore Al-Jurf field.

Before the Revolution the German company has been lifting 100,000 bpd.  Production however thereafter declined and in 2013 the firm said security was impeding its operations .  After 2014 it withdrew its foreign staff and with the exception of the offshore field, production has been disrupted, not least by the closure of the Zuetina oil export terminal to which its onshore production is pumped.

In his drive to convince foreign oil companies to resume Libyan investments, Sanalla saw Wintershall excutives in Tripoli this February. It is now clear that part of the conversation involved Wintershall moving to the less favourable EPSA IV terms.

NOC maintained that in 2010, Wintershall had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) which extended its 50-year concession for its two onshore areas in return for accepting the EPSA IV terms.

Without this agreement, said NOC, the German firm’s concessions would have expired in March 2016. However at that time Zuetina was blockaded by Ibrahim Jadhran’s Petroleum Facilities Guard and NOC had declared force majeure, a measure only lifted last September when the LNA ousted the PFG from all the Oil Crescent export terminals, including Zuetina.

NOC said today that it had held a number of meetings with Wintershall at which it was unable to persuade the German firm to act on the 2010 MOU, which had thus since this March been excluded from loading plans at Zuetina.

Sanalla’s clear assertion is that Wintershall worked with Serraj’s PC on Resolution 270 in order to outmanoeuvre NOC by doing a deal with the UN-backed administration.

Wintershall is reported by Reuters to have insisted that its concessions in Libya are still valid and in full forces and that it was in talks with NOC. It confirmed that it had had to shut in some production because its had not been included the Zuetina shipping schedules.

The spat with Wintershall became public as NOC announced that production had now risen from 760,000 to 800,000 bpd.

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