After the GNA’s gains this month, NOC attempted to reopen Sharara and El Feel oil fields, before armed groups stopped it. Last week it said Russian mercenaries had occupied Sharara.
There have been negotiations in recent weeks between NOC, the GNA and regional countries, overseen by the United Nations and United States, an NOC spokesman said.
“We are hopeful that those regional countries will lift the blockade and allow us to resume our work,” the spokesman said.
An LNA spokesman said on television that it welcomed any popular mandate to protect the oilfields.
The NOC spokesman said the company would start producing oil again right away if workers’ security was guaranteed.
“We need to resume work immediately to save our infrastructure and the Libyan economy,” the spokesman said.
“NOC is determined that the agreement will guarantee transparency and that oil revenues will achieve social justice for all Libyans,” he said.