VOL. XXXI 

NO. 48

5-SEPTEMBER-1988

LIBYA AND THE DOWNSTREAM

(MEES Executive Editor Walid Khadduri, who recently visited Libya, reports on that country's growing presence downstream.)

Libya must now be counted in the ranks of OPEC member states with substantial downstream capacity. It has acquired domestic and foreign refining capacity of around 575,000 b/d, or approximately 57% of its lmn b/d crude oil production level. MEES understands that plans laid out earlier in this...