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BP Withdraws Staff from Libya
BP is withdrawing some of its staff from Libya amid potential violence in the country.
BP said in a statement Sunday that it was withdrawing non-essential overseas staff out of Libya “as a precautionary measure” following advice given to it by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. However, BP said that its Libyan staff remain in its office in the country.
Last week, the Foreign Office noted that armed groups were disrupting access to a number of government ministries in Tripoli, Libya’s capital city, and that there was potential for violence and clashes between rival armed groups. The FCO advised Friday UK citizens against all but essential travel to Tripoli and against all travel to the rest of the country. It has also withdrawn a small number of its own staff who work at the British Embassy.
Also last week, Italy’s ENI – the international oil major with the biggest operations in Libya – said it expects unrest to continue in the country. On Friday, ENI Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni was quoted as saying that he is optimistic that the situation in Libya will eventually improve as the country embraces democracy.
The latest violence is likely to delay further BP restarting its operations in the country. The company indicated several times in 2012 that it was looking to restart its operations after it suspended them during Libya’s civil war in 2011, but even before the recent violence differences between the Libyan government and foreign firms over the use of foreign security forces in oil zones within the country are already thought to have been an obstacle to BP resuming operations.
3 Comments on "BP Withdraws Staff from Libya"
Arthur on Mon, 13th May 2013 1:45 pm
The semi-secular regime of Kadaffi was toppled, because western opportunists thought that they could take advantage of the ‘Arab Spring’ and turn another Arab country into a western satellite. The stunt was initiated by the kosher lobby of Sarkozy and Bernard Levy and carried out by European (French, British, Dutch and Danish) airforces, because the US was still licking it’s financial and military wounds after the Iraq/Afghan adventures.
But the Arab Spring was NOT about a (non-existing) wish of the Arab populations of becoming a western satellite. Heck, Egypt and Tunesia were already western satellites, yet the regimes were toppled anyway. The Arab Spring is about the wish of the populations for economic progress and prosperity, yet at the same time hostile to the West and deeply Islamic. If you are white and speak English, better stay away from post revolutionary Arab countries, as the article illustrates.
Plantagenet on Mon, 13th May 2013 3:58 pm
According to the Obama administration, all the problems in Libya are caused by an obscure anti-Islamic video that appeared on YouTube a year ago.
DC on Mon, 13th May 2013 6:38 pm
So, BP pushes for regime change so it can take control of libyas oil on terms it finds more agreeable, but then finds the very violence it and its US contractors caused is not to its liking?
There was no ‘civil war’ in Libya-it was outright invasion by US\Nato proxies.
Libya was no more violent or unsafe place than most places in the world before the US-led invasion.
‘Embracing democracy’? WtF is that supposed to mean Lol!
Rigporn idiots…