In an official notice, Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) said Friday that the losses to the Libyan state, as a direct result of the illegal forced closures of its oil facilities, exceeded $8.7 billion, during a period of 217 days of forced shutdown of production in the oil industry.

It will be reminded that the (NOC) welcomed the statements of the Head of the Presidential Council, Fayaz Al-Sarraj, and the Speaker of Tobruk-based House of Representatives, on resumption of oil production.