Morocco

Morocco gets $3billion offer to purchase its sole oil refinery

December 30, 2016 | Asset Acquisitions & Divestitures, Morocco, Refining & Processing

London, UK | – Morocco’s only oil refinery, Samir, has received a $3 billion offer from an Italian law firm operating on behalf of an unnamed bidder, Reuters has reported. Samir’s management said however, that they would press ahead with plans to seek expressions of interest from other potential buyers. A company official, who declined to be named, told Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu Agency that the offer exceeded the company’s value. A union official in Samir, Al-Hussein Al-Yamani, said that his union was “waiting for the court’s official announcement of …