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Apprehensive: Postwar worries builds for oil firms in Libya

August 17, 2011 11:38 by Reuters

But physical conflict and further damage to oil facilities is not the only worry for oil firms who spent years courting Gaddafi to gain access to the country. In the potentially febrile atmosphere of postwar Libya, they fear massive renegotiation of contracts and the digging up of old secrets.

“The biggest threat to oil firms is that the new regime will inevitably try to investigate who paid what to secure contracts with Gaddafi,” said the anonymous political risk consultant.

“The firms will either have to pay again or face the risk of information being disclosed publicly and potentially ending up in courts in Europe and the U.S.”

By Peter Apps, Political Risk Correspondent

(Additional reporting by Dmitry Zhdannikov; editing by Alastair Macdonald)

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