Monday 5 September 2011

FT.com - Colossal task ahead for Libya’s new oil chief

Six months ago Nuri Berruien was anticipating his retirement from one of the subsidiaries of Libya’s National Oil Company. But the start of the civil-war put paid to his plans.

Now the 65-year old petroleum engineer is busier than ever as the newly appointed chairman of the state-owned NOC.

“I have a national duty,” he says at the company’s small offices in Benghazi – for months the rebels’ stronghold. Its Tripoli headquarters are not yet considered safe. “The oil industry before the revolution was operated under the worst bureaucratic and corrupted regime.”


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