[BRIEF NOTE] Where are Libya's oil fields?

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Where are Libya's oil fields?
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In my Monday post outlining the grounds to suspect strong regionalist, even separatist, tendencies of existing in opaque Libya, I suggested that most of the oil was to be found in the west, away from the rebellious eastern region of Cyrenaica. As this image, found at The Oil Drum's post on Libyan oil via The Arabist makes clear, Libya's oil infrastructure (not necessarily production) seems to actually be more concentrated in Cyrenaica than elsewhere.