The Al Sarir refinery of the Arabian Gulf Oil Company is located southeast of the oasis cities. A Libyan activist claimed that the corporation supplies energy to one of the warring parties in Sudan. In a related context, the National Oil Corporation talked about the return of natural gas pumping from the Brega Company to the city of Khoms, after a 12-year hiatus, at a rate of about 100 million cubic feet per day. Al-Abed added, “Laws 12-23 of 2010 regarding foreign workers and labor relations are still obstructing our work. We wrote to the House of Representatives repeatedly, but without responses, “continuing:” In order to avoid security and demographic risks, we adopted a plan to settle the conditions of foreign workers by housing them outside densely populated neighborhoods.
