Desigur că e rău cu Muammar Gaddafi, că nu-i prea bine cu dictatorii, dar totuşi să nu uităm că …

• Libia are cele mai mari resurse de petrol din Africa
• Libia e pe locul 9 în lume cu rezervele de petrol – poate nu s-au schimbat prea multe din 2007
• Libia are petrol pentru încă 60 de ani.

… deci n-avea cum să nu fie Gaddafi problema în toate astea.

Oil reserves in Libya are the largest in Africa and the ninth largest in the world with 41.5 billion barrels (6.60×10^9 m3) as of 2007. Oil production was 1.8 million barrels per day (290×10^3 m3/d) as of 2006, giving Libya 63 years of reserves at current production rates if no new reserves were to be found. Libya is considered a highly attractive oil area due to its low cost of oil production (as low as $1 per barrel at some fields), and proximity to European markets. Libya would like to increase production from 1.8 Mbbl/d (290×10^3 m3/d) in 2006 to 3 Mbbl/d (480×10^3 m3/d) by 2010–13 but with existing oil fields undergoing a 7–8% decline rate, Libya’s challenge is maintaining production at mature fields, while finding and developing new oil fields. Most of Libya remains unexplored as a result of past sanctions and disagreements with foreign oil companies.

Cumulative production through 2009 was 27 Gbbl. Given the stated number, this would be 65% of reserve

De pe Wikipedia.

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