Libya's NOC slams Shell's record

As it restarts three major export facilities, Libya’s National Oil Company has chastised Shell for what it regards as the company’s poor record in the country.

"Historically and since its entry to Libya, Shell has generally not achieved encouraging results in either the exploration or the production of oil and gas," the NOC said in a statement on its website yesterday, translated from Arabic.

The statement came as NOC announced that the oil export terminals at El-Sider, Ras Lanuf and Brega, with a combined capacity of 690,000 bpd, had restarted. The terminals were taken offline during Libya’s historic election by protestors who believe that the East of the country will be underrepresented in Libya’s new parliament.