Exclusive.. For these reasons: “Aoun” demands stopping the direct assignment of Esnad Oil Services Company to implement the Dahra fields project in Al-Batin for Halliburton, the UAE branch.

Sada Economic newspaper exclusively obtained a letter from the Minister of Oil, Mohamed Aoun, to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Oil Corporation regarding the direct assignment of the National Oil Services Company, Esnad, to implement the project to rehabilitate and develop the Dahra fields in Al-Batin for Halliburton, the UAE branch.

He said: The Ministry of Oil and Gas mail received a copy of a correspondence from the Chairman of the Owners Committee of the Al-Waha Oil Company to the Chairman of the Management Committee of the Al-Waha Oil Company regarding the approval of sending eight (8) employees from the Al-Waha Oil Company, including four managers, to the United Arab Emirates for a period of ten months to follow up. Al-Dhahra Fields Rehabilitation and Development Project. He also informed us that there is currently another team from Al-Waha Oil Company in the UAE who was dispatched for a period of six months and accompanied by representatives of the Esnad Oil Services Company.

The information also indicates that Al-Waha Oil Company has approved the price list for the services of the National Oil Services Company (Isnad), (and for your information, no projects have been previously completed in the oil sector on the basis of a price list), which included services similar to Halliburton Company so that it could implement the project internally by the company. Halliburton in the United Arab Emirates, and a financial credit was opened in this regard, not to mention the provision of incorrect and misleading information in the request of the Chairman of the Management Committee of the Waha Oil Company to pass the contract/negotiate on a direct assignment with Esnad Company, upon your prior instruction, by informing him that Esnad Company is the strategic partner of Halliburton, and this is what he denied. Halliburton Company, in response to our inquiry in particular, will carry out the work according to a guaranteed work order paid in advance from any service company in Libya, and in the comment of a technical official from this company that the efficiency of the negotiation team of the Waha Oil Company lacks experience in the field of field development and even in the field of targeted work in particular and in Another official at Halliburton, the Libya branch, responded to our question, why such negotiations were not arranged in Libya, and why in its branch in the Emirates in particular, by saying that he does not have any information in this regard, and to date, he has not received your response regarding our correspondence informing you of all the aforementioned facts, the latest of which is No. (872) dated 15 August 2023 AD Accordingly, we ask you not to continue procedures that violate applicable legislation and confirm the illegality of direct assignment to a newly established service company that has no experience at all in implementing such projects, which may raise questions about the possibility of corruption in the oil sector.

He continued by saying: Indeed, you ignored most of our directives by agreeing to begin implementing the project on illegal grounds and in clear violation of administrative procedures, the administrative contracts regulations, and the unified bidding and contracting regulations for oil companies affiliated with the National Oil Corporation, and the intention to send 4 department directors for both engineering and technology. Information, communications and operations, in addition to the director of finance for a period of ten months, which indicates the transfer of the company and its management to the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Here we are talking about the nature of jobs, not individuals, for whom we respect and appreciate their professional competence in their current specialization. Unfortunately, they are forced into a field in which they lack experience, which is field development. .

Based on the above, Aoun Bin Qaddara requested that these procedures be halted and that he be provided with a detailed report on this matter within a week from its date. In the event of no response, all necessary measures will be taken in this regard, and a notice will also be sent to Halliburton Company not to participate in projects whose procedures they know are in conflict with Libyan and even American laws. In the field of promoting the principles of transparency and fair competition, and addressing the partners in the fields of the Waha Oil Company (ConocoPhillips and Total Energy) about their responsibility in such procedures, and the extent of their expected contribution to technical support and technology transfer in particular.

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