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The US officials stressed their readiness to provide all forms of technical and technological support to enhance cooperation with the NOC in the areas of governance and transparency, in addition to raising the efficiency of workers in the Libyan oil sector.
The National Oil Corporation’s (NOC) Chairman of Libya Farhat Bengdara held a series of meetings in Washington with a few US administration officials to discuss ways to support the NOC’s independence.
According to a statement of NOC, the meetings included parleys at the White House with Amos Hochstein, Special Advisor to the US President. Bengdara also met with Joshua Harris, Assistant Secretary of State for International Affairs at the US Department of State, and Sibyl Siegel, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for the US Agency for International Development’s Middle East Office.
Bengdara held a meeting at the Treasury Department with Anthony Marcus, the US Treasury’s International Affairs Officer. At the Energy Department, he met with Assistant Secretary of Energy Jeffrey Pyatt, Brad Crabtree, and Josh Volz.
He also met with Thomas Prince, US Assistant Secretary of Commerce, according to a statement by the National Oil Corporation, which quoted US officials as saying they “fully support the NOC in its efforts to maintain its independence and neutrality, especially in light of the challenges and pressures it faces.”
The US officials stressed their readiness to provide all forms of technical and technological support to enhance cooperation with the NOC in the areas of governance and transparency, in addition to raising the efficiency of workers in the Libyan oil sector.
They stressed the need to protect the NOC from interference that may hinder its performance, highlighting its vital role in securing the revenues of the Libyan state, in addition to the stability of global energy supplies, especially in light of issues related to reducing production and the crisis of the Central Bank of Libya.
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