Exclusive: Attorney General Addresses the National Oil Corporation on Conducting Fuel Supply Tenders Before Year-End

Our source obtained a correspondence from the Attorney General to the Chairman and members of the Board of the National Oil Corporation. In the letter, he revealed that, given the review of the fuel supply system to the country, there are concerns regarding the unfairness of administrative and financial procedures related to it. This is due to the management’s distance from signing long-term contracts and relying solely on crude oil barter arrangements, despite the incompatibility of this method with public funds oversight systems, as well as the signing of immediate supply contracts that do not safeguard the public interest because they are concluded with companies that do not refine fuel.

It was also noted that, under both methods, payments were made for fuel quantities that did not comply with Libyan standard specifications, with additional premiums applied to the cost of supplied fuel despite their value exceeding the premiums linked to reference prices. Furthermore, there was a delay in implementing the directive of the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers’ letter No. 8153 dated 25/8/2025, which tasked the National Oil Corporation with moving towards public tenders when signing energy supply contracts for the country.

For the purpose of replacing the current contracting method with an optimal one and enhancing transparency in fuel expenditure relative to total output, the Attorney General called for the general tender related to fuel supply contracts to be conducted before the end of the current year, and to expedite the signing of long-term contracts for fuel supply throughout 2026.