Exactly. I’ve always been amazed that they can’t even get oil by themselves. If it weren’t for the western world, they’d still be herding camels over unknown oil supplies.
As far as I know, its one of the easiest place in the world to extract oil - and they still need help with that.
Yep, the oil is fairly shallow in the ground. I read once that it costs them only a couple of dollars per barrel to pump it out of the ground.