Benghazi's State Oil Company Is Asking to Allocate 600,000 Barrels to Private Arkeno, Linked to Haftar

The Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO), Libya’s state-owned oil company based in Benghazi, has asked the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Libya’s national oil company, to allow the private oil company Arkeno to extract 600 thousand barrels of crude oil from the NC-4 field, known as Al Taharah, located in the Hamada desert, in southwestern Libya, about 250 km south of Tripoli, in the Ghadames basin, not far from the border with Algeria. This was rep…

Khalifa Haftar, the strongman of eastern Libya, is multiplying initiatives to strengthen his international ties. Benghazi is nurturing the image of its official diplomacy, while forging new alliances behind the scenes. Long untouchable, the Haftar clan is now courted by the region's major players—right under the nose of its rival in Tripoli. For the past year, photos of official visits to Benghazi have multiplied, each one more similar than the …