Not to be negative or anything, but ha-ruddy-ha to his MOU

Published: October 22, 2014 at 12:31am

libyan oil

MOU oil and gas

Didn’t Muscat jet off to Libya last year and jet back again victorious and triumphant, with news that his friend the Libyan prime minister had promised him cheap oil, as a special treat?

Now his friend the Libyan prime minister is the Libyan ex prime minister. Now he is a German citizen living in Switzerland. Or is it a Swiss citizen living in Germany?

And the new Libyan prime minister has taken rather a dim view of cheap treats for Malta. After all, he doesn’t even have control of the oil wells. Damn, he doesn’t even have control of Tripoli, and runs a government in exile from Tobruk – and now, Malta.




10 Comments Comment

  1. P Shaw says:

    Who needs special oil prices’ deals with Libya, when the international price of oil is falling steadily?

  2. ken il malti says:

    Tell Muscat to forget about cheap or expensive Libyan oil. it is not going to happen.

    He would be better off kissing butt with the Russians, who are experts at super deep off shore oil-well drilling and can surely drill for high yielding but very deep oil wells right next to Filfla.

  3. Tabatha White says:

    The only people in control of Libya are the Thuwar.

  4. La Redoute says:

    http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/af4013be-55ee-11e4-a3c9-00144feab7de.html

    Good news from the lower price at the pump

    Cheaper oil benefits both the world economy and global security

    Amid the Pandora’s box of woes opened up in the markets last week, there was at least one more cheerful sign: the plunge in the price of oil.

  5. ciccio says:

    Did I hear Joseph Muscat say in a clip on Radju Malta that Libya is “not up to scratch in the production of oil” – meaning that they are not currently producing the necessary volumes?

    Up to scratch? I’m scratching my head…

  6. chico says:

    Tobruk, German citizen …the mind boggles. Half expecting to see what was that guy’s name, Rommel (?) to pop out of some fox hole somewhere beyond the barbed-wire!

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