Russia’s Tatneft may not resume libya upstream work

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Moscow—Russia’s sixth-largest oil producerTatneft is unlikely to be able to return to workin Libya, company board member Renat Mus-limov said June 26, because conditions havechanged since the end of the Qadhafi regime.“We are trying to conduct talks [with thenew government] but conditions are now com-pletely different to what they were,” he said onthe sidelines of an oil conference in Moscow.Tatneft was carrying out exploration workin Libya with local partner, state-owned NOC,before being forced to pull its employees outof the country in late February 2011 due tothe civil war.