"Our production in Libya has already reached 200 barrels of oil equivalent per day": announced the CEO of Eni, Paolo Scaroni. The group, explained Claudio Descalzi, director of the Exploration and Production division, "will reach pre-war levels by June 2012". Descalzi then stated that "we will reach 300 barrels in 2013", with a potential "doubling of production in a decade".
Scaroni announced that "in the coming weeks we will go to meet the new Libyan government as a whole, for us Libya is back to business as usual". As for the new oil minister (Abdurahman Benyezza, a former ENI executive), Scaroni explained that "we have met a lot of times, we have a perfectly functional office in Tripoli".
