VOL. XXXII

NO. 27

10-APRIL-1989

LIBYA

NOC Holds Preliminary Talks with US Oil Companies

Preliminary negotiations were held in Vienna last week between Libya'sNational Oil Corporation (NOC) and the five US oil companies with equityholdings in Libya (Marathon, Conoco, Amerada-Hess, Occidental and W.R. Grace),MEES understands. The purpose of the talks was to discuss the steps to betaken to allow the companies to resume operations in Libya following the 19January decision by President Ronald Reagan to...