The Minister of Oil and Gas, Mohamed Aoun, told Flusna program yesterday, Monday, that the head of the National Oil Corporation, Mustafa Sanalla, had sold the share of the Marathon Oil company, based on a letter from the Prime Minister of the Government of National Accord, Fayez Al-Sarraj, and the sale was illegal.

Aoun added that the Oil Ministry had contacted Sanalla to find out the details of the accumulated debts on the oil sector, and he did not respond, indicating that the Oil Ministry had pressured Sanalla to recover the money arrears with foreign companies since October 2020, until it was collecting 10 billion and 900 million dinars in the form of bonds in the name of the Ministry of Oil.

The Minister of Oil also indicated that the failure to open the wells with their full production by the National Oil Corporation will waste large quantities of crude oil and we will not be able to extract it due to the non-technical mechanism that is being used now, indicating that « us, the Ministry, have written to Sanallah to give us details about the production of each oil well and he answered with information that is not related to the topic ».

Mohamed Aoun revealed that the sale of the American Hess company has not yet taken place, based on several memos submitted to the concerned authorities, so the Administrative Control Authority and the Audit Bureau submitted a request to the Council of Ministers to stop this deal.