Libyan oil production won't return to pre-war levels until late next year at the earliest, with many of the country's oil facilities having suffered heavy damage during the uprising against leader Moammar Gadhafi, the Financial Times reported Monday citing the newly appointed chairman of the country's National Oil Company.
Nuri Berruien said it would be late 2012 or early 2013 before the country was again producing the 1.6 million barrels per day it had before the turmoil.
"Initial oil output will be measured in the 10,000s of barrels a day rather than in the 100,000s of b/d," Berruien told the newspaper. "In 15 months we can reach the pre-war level of 1.6 million b/d," he said, adding that it was the "optimistic forecast."
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