UK Reopens Visa Service Centre in Libya
The UK will reopen its full visa service in Libya according to a government announcement on April 5, 2012. The government announced that the UK Visa Application Centre in Tripoli would be back in operation after being closed in February 2011. UK visa applicants from Libya now can apply for visas in Tripoli instead of […]
Libya oil purchases: talks at initial phase but Libya showing good will
Talks on oil and gas purchases from Libya at favourable rates are at an early stage, but Libya is showing good will, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech told The Sunday Times. Mr Fenech was contacted after the Libya Herald reported he held meetings with the Libyan Undersecretary at the Ministry of Oil and Gas, Umar Shakmak, […]
Libya, U.S. Probe Oil-Company Deals
Authorities in the U.S. and Libya are investigating oil giants such as Italy's Eni SpA and France's Total SA over their past relations with the fallen Libyan regime, potentially casting a cloud on the companies' ambitions to expand their foothold in the country with the largest oil reserves in Africa. Last year, a civil war […]
Libya geopolitical risks challenge STX
STX Group, Korea’s shipping and shipbuilding conglomerate, is seeking to win Libya’s huge energy infrastructure projects, which company officials said could be worth up to $10 billion. STX Group officials said STX Heavy Industries signed a memorandum of understanding on building energy, steel desalination and other facilities in Libya’s northern region of Tobruk early last […]
Tunisia, Libya launch border security partnership
Tunisian interim Interior Minister Ali Laârayedh and his Libyan counterpart Fawzi Abdelali agreed March 30th to increase co-operation in security, stability and development. At their meeting in Tunis, the Libyan minister stressed the importance of security co-ordination between Libya and Tunisia in the upcoming period, especially in terms of securing the joint land borders to […]
International telcos eye Libya opportunities
International firms are keen to enter Libya's telecommunications sector, one of the major business opportunities created by last year's uprisings in the Arab world. But they will only find out how they can do so after the war-torn country's first free elections in June. Foreign investment in the sector is much needed after a fifth […]
British Visas – Good News
By Aref Nayed on 5th April 2012 in Communications, Industry & Trade, Leisure & Tourism, MEC International, Transportation
Problems over visas have been a significant obstacle to normal contact between Britain and Libya. Since the British Embassy was burnt out last year Libyans have usually had to travel to Tunis to get a British visa. So it is good news that the UK announced today the re-opening of a full visa service in Libya, […]
SEC Probing Eni, Total Over Libya Operations
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sent formal requests for information to Italy's Eni SpAand France's Total SA related to the companies' Libyan businesses, the companies disclosed in regulatory filings. The investigation is among the first new probes to be disclosed since the fall of Col. Moammar Gadhafi last year. Eni, the biggest foreign […]