Eastern Libya Appoints New Chairman for its State Oil Firm
state oil firm, also known as NOC, in Tripoli where a rival government is in charge.
The official government has been based in the east since losing the capital to the rival administration a year ago. It has appointed a head for an oil firm NOC based in a separate headquarters in the east but oil customers have refused to deal with it, preferring to pay through existing channels via NOC in Tripoli.
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