Posted on 12/30/2014 7:38:19 AM PST by thackney
Two oil storage tanks remain on fire at Libya's Es Sider oil port while two others have collapsed almost a week after clashes there sparked the blaze, a spokesman for state National Oil Corp (NOC) said on Tuesday.
Fires at two other storage tanks at Libya's biggest oil port had been extinguished but the damage was unclear, NOC spokesman Mohamed El Harari said.
An industry source said at least 1.2 million barrels of oil had been destroyed by the fire which broke out after clashes reported on Dec. 25 between armed factions allied to Libya's internationally recognised government and a group called Libya Dawn which is vying for control of the country.
Libya's two largest ports, Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, have stopped since a force loyal to a rival government in Tripoli tried seizing them from forces allied to the recognised Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni.
(Excerpt) Read more at rigzone.com ...
Libya Contracts U.S. Firm to Extinguish Fire
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/libya-contracts-us-firm-to-extinguish-fire
The unnamed U.S. firefighting firm will help extinguish the fires for $6 million with work due to start within five days.
Now it’ll be a failed state harboring terrorists that some future administration will have to deal with in American lives.
Can’t have too many Afghanistan’s I always say.
Spit.
Libya After Qaddafi
http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR500/RR577/RAND_RR577.pdf
Lessons and Implications for the Future
..businesses just won't go into the "neighborhood".
well, they HAD to do something to get the prices back up!................
I’m thinking this isn’t going to benefit those that caused the fire.
Travel note to self: Avoid crazed moozlums where ever they might reside.
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