Eastern Libya News

Eastern Libya Appoints New Chairman for its State Oil Firm

. Maghrabi, who is currently in Egypt, will replace al-Mabrook Bou Seif as chairman of NOC in the east, an oil official said, without giving a reason. The official cabinet of Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni has struggled to make an impact, working out of hotels and rented villas in the remote eastern city of Bayda. Ministries and key state bodies such as the state oil firm or the central bank are in Tripoli, which is controlled by the rival faction, part of the turmoil in the OPEC member four years after the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi. Oil insiders say Thinni's new oil company had contacted