Mustafa Sanalla (مصطفى صنع الله) served as the chairman of the

National Oil Corporation The National Oil Corporation (NOC; ar, المؤسسة الوطنية للنفط) is the national oil company of Libya. It dominates Libya's oil industry, along with a number of smaller subsidiaries, which combined account for around 70% the cou ...

(NOC), Libya's national oil company, between May 2014 and July 2022. After acquiring a degree in chemical engineering from the

University of Tripoli , mottoeng = He has taught man that which he knew not , established = 1955 , type = Public , colors = Blue Sky and Sunglow , mascot = Fennec fox , city = Tripoli , country = Libya , coo ...

in 1985 Sanalla joined Ras Lanuf Oil and Gas Processing Company, a subsidiary of the NOC which operates a refinery in

Ras Lanuf Ras Lanuf ( ( ar, راس لانوف , also: ''Ra’s al-Unūf'' )) is a Mediterranean town in northern Libya, on the Gulf of Sidra. The town is also home to the Ra's Lanuf Refinery, completed in 1984, with a crude oil refining capacity of . The oil ...

, Libya. Sanalla was subsequently promoted several times until he was appointed as the NOC chairman in 2014. As chairman, Sanalla sought to maintain the independence of the NOC and increase Libya's oil production, which has been repeatedly disrupted since the outbreak of the 2011 civil war. Sanalla also engaged in efforts to attract international investment to Libya's oil and gas sector. On 13 July 2022, Sanalla was replaced by

Farhat Bengdara Farhat Omar Bengdara ( ar, فرحات عمر بن قداره, 27 September 1965 in Benghazi) is a Libyan politician and banker who was the governor of the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) until he defected to the anti-Gaddafi side in the course of the ...

as the head of the NOC.

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