BP denies move to cancel Libya drilling

Not off the map: BP says it has not cancelled onshore Libya plans

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Bill Lehane ,

News Wires

 28 January 2013 12:22 GMT

British oil major BP has denied making any plans to cancel exploration drilling onshore Libya slated for the second half of the year because of the In Amenas tragedy.

A spokesman for the explorer confirmed to Upstream that BP has been reviewing security across the Middle East and north Africa region for the past week in the wake of the deadly hostage crisis.

“We’re reviewing security across the region and any impact that has on our drilling plans,” the spokesman said.

However, he denied any move had been made to scrub the onshore drilling programme at the Ghadames block - near the borders with Tunisia and Algeria - in the second half of 2013, as reports by Dow Jones Newswires earlier suggested.

“No…

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