VOL. XLIII

No. 04

24-January-2000

LIBYA

Libyas NOC Denies Reports Of Bula Oil Discovery

Libyas National Oil Corporation (NOC) informed MEES on 20 January that it "categorically denies" media reports that Irelands Bula Resources holds any upstream interests in Libya or that it has made a major oil discovery in the country. NOC said in a statement: "The National Oil Corporation of the Great Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahirya has received the information circulated in the media that the Irish...