Tripoli:Acting Oil Minister Khalifa Al-Sadiq met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty to discuss enhancing cooperation in the energy sector between Libya and Egypt.
According to Libyan News Agency, the meeting took place at the new headquarters of the Embassy of Egypt in Tripoli. Abdelatty emphasized the need to accelerate joint projects, particularly focusing on establishing and connecting gas pipelines, expanding petroleum product cooperation, refining Libyan crude oil in Egypt for international re-export, rehabilitating Libyan refineries, and completing electricity interconnection projects between the two nations.
Al-Sadiq expressed appreciation for the ongoing bilateral cooperation in energy-related technical areas. He highlighted the key aspects of current technical collaboration in the oil, gas, and electricity sectors. Al-Sadiq also confirmed his commitment to the continuation of these joint projects and revealed plans to visit Cairo soon to further discuss technical cooperation with Egypt's Ministers of Petroleum and Electricity.