Libya Oil Output Decline Threatens Public Sector Pay, MP Says
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Libya’s government may stop paying civil servants by the end of the year as protests at petroleum facilities curtail the nation’s oil output to one-tenth of its capacity, a lawmaker warned today.
The North African state is now producing 150,000 barrels a day, after losing 50,000 barrels in daily production yesterday because of strikes by workers and security guards over pay and allegations of corruption, Sliman Qajam, a member of the parliamentary energy committee, said in a telephone interview in Tripoli. Libya needs to produce 400,000 barrels a day just to afford public-sector salaries, he said.