Chairman of Libya’s state oil firm Sanallah wins Chief Executive of the Year award at the Petroleum Economist Annual Awards.

The Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanallah was named Tuesday the Chief Executive of the Year at the Petroleum Economist Annual Awards gala ceremony in London.   The award for Sanallah came as his international peers recognized NOC’s success in restoring oil production to around one…

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Nov
Libyan oil production exceeds one million barrels per day

The country’s crude production rose to 1.012 million barrels per day (bpd) to more than 1 million barrels for the first time in four years, a Libyan oil source said on Friday. The National Oil Corporation (NOC) has been targeting production to 1 million bpd by the end of october….

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Oct
NOC seeks to expand business with US companies and puts local development among the priorities in its contracts.

The head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Mustafa Sannallah, announced today the opening of a procurement office in Houston, Texas, to support the Foundation’s efforts to restore production capacity. “The Houston office will put US-based companies with world-class equipment, technology and oilfield services at the center of our procurement…

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Nov
Product tankers: Bulls are arriving… hopefully.

HOPES of an early recovery in product tanker earnings this year have not materialised, with persistent oversupply and destocking works still in progress. But fear not, optimists: there is always next year.   Long range two vessels are expected to achieve time charter equivalent rates of $15,781 per day in…

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Nov
VLCCs continue to find a greener pasture in West Africa

CRUDE oil exports from West Africa have continued to rise upwards as production disruptions in Nigeria have subsided. Cargoes loading in Nigeria tend to move on suezmaxes more often than crude in Angola, which is shipped on very large crude carriers to Asia. This rise in outbound shipments from West…

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Nov