The National Oil Corporation confirmed on Monday that the armed militia under “Abdul Karim Alrounie”, is still preventing the maintenance teams of the Akakos Oil Operations Company from carrying out their work until the date of this statement.

As the National Oil Corporation still warns of the severe damage regarding the continuation of the current situation on the infrastructure of the oil sector, it demands the people responsible to back-off of site immediately and allow the maintenance teams to carry out their duty.

The National Oil Corporation added that it has addressed both the Attorney General’s Office and the Ministry of the Interior to take all the required and necessary legal measures against the so-called Abdul Karim  Alrounie and against everyone involved with him in the above-mentioned crimeWorth-mentioned.

“As the losses due to the closure of the facilities and transmission lines to date have exceeded more than 5 billion dollars, of which 1.7 billion dollars are losses resulting of the closure of “AL-sharara” and “Elfeel” fields only, which foretells an economic disaster that will bring Libya to its knees as a result of these irresponsible acts.Therefore, the National Oil Corporation implores the honorable people in the city of Zintan once more to up-lift the social, tribal and legal cover off of the so-called Abdul Karim Alrounie and his militias, and to assist the security and judicial agencies in arresting them and bringing them to justice,” NOC stated.

The National Oil Corporation also highlighted the need to cease all oppressive closures of its facilities immediately, given the real danger it poses to the infrastructure of the oil sector and to the economic security in general for Libya