The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) said it will start preparing for Benghazi International conference and exhibition for oil and gas from October 9/11 this year with local and international firms’ participations.

“The committee of the conference held its first meeting on March 05 at the NOC headquarters in Tripoli with the Arab Gulf Oil Company members from Benghazi as part of the preparations,” the NOC indicated.

It confirmed that they discussed the needed procedures and the topics to be tackled at the conference, besides updating the website of the conference and the method of receiving the scientific papers for the conference.

The Head of the preparations committee, Masoud Al-Awami, and the Head of the scientific committee Nouri Flo, said the exhibition aims at developing the oil and gas sector so that it takes a leading role in making exhibitions and conferences in Libya, thus positively boosting the Libyan economy.