Circle Oil, the exploration group focused on north Africa, has frozen the shareholding of Libya Oil Holdings in the group. Libya Oil Holdings has a 17.75 per cent stake in AIM-listed Circle, which has interests in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Namibia and Oman.
The shareholding was frozen under the terms of an EU order.
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