current EPSA competitive bidding process

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current EPSA competitive bidding process

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In order to move forward, VOS seeks to identify and team with an international oil company (operator), which is financially and technically (and politically!) qualified and is recognised as such by NOC ( National Oil Corporation ).

Any of the operators you speak to will immediately recognise the advantage of direct negotiation over the current EPSA competitive bidding process.
Moreover, with LAIP (the Libyan Government, if you will) as a 50% shareholder, we can be confident of entering into "very fair" PSAs. For these reasons I would foresee the following as a reasonable commercial framework for the relationship with the chosen operator and VOS :

Заранее спасибо

[ElenkaM]

EPSA - Electric Power Supply Association - Вас это интересовало?