Libya’s Ghanem may be on secret govt mission

Top Libyan oil official Shokri Ghanem has not defected and is secretly working for Muammar Gaddafi to maintain ties with big oil companies,sources at western firms said. A Libyan opposition source and a source at a major international oil company said Ghanem had invited representatives of oil companies to meet him last week in Tunisia. “There were some invitations or advances but we did not accept,” said the source at the western oil firm. Meanwhile,a delegate at Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’ said Ghanem will represent Libya at a June 8 OPEC meeting.