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Two Libyan Oil Fields Attacked
Two Libyan oil fields were attacked on Friday, Libyan oil officials said, in a fresh wave of violence targeting the North African country’s vital energy sector.
The Libyan oil officials said guards repelled gunmen who assaulted the Bahi oil field operated by Waha Oil Co., a joint venture between the state-owned National Oil Co. and U.S. companies ConocoPhillips , Marathon Oil Corp. and Hess Corp.
Meanwhile, the neighboring Mabruk oil field, operated by a Libyan joint venture with France’s Total SA, was stormed, officials said.
“Smoke is coming out of the Mabruk field,” one official said.
No one claimed responsibility for Friday’s attacks.
Mabruk was also assaulted on Feb. 3 in what Libyan officials described as a coordinated terrorist attack. Nine guards were killed and three workers were taken hostage, officials said. A group claiming to represent Islamic State took responsibility for that attack on Mabruk.
Libya’s oil production plunged by nearly a third from October to January as the country’s oil fields were dragged into the country’s escalating civil war. The latest attacks have stirred fears that the country’s potentially lucrative energy sector is now a terrorism target.
22 Comments on "Two Libyan Oil Fields Attacked"
Makati1 on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 8:56 am
And the drum beat of war goes on …
Speculawyer on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 11:15 am
Ah, religion. So useful it is.
Apneaman on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 11:49 am
Looking at the Islamic world today it’s hard to imagine that they were, for about 300 years, the world leaders in culture, architecture, medicine, mathematics and science. All thrown away because of rejection of science and reason and a return to superstition and religious fundamentalism. Almost a thousand years later and they are not even close to recovering. I bet after the Fundies brutal take over the survivors wished they would have put them down like rabid dogs before they grew strong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZyIG_jZzBs
bobinget on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 12:20 pm
As a lifelong atheist, I respectfully disagree with
Speculawyer.
In this case and most others oil trumps religion.
What’s painfully obvious to any educated Muslim.
Islamic religion followers, trappings, have been hi-jacked by criminals. Any other time in history these crazy like a fox radicals would simply be called ‘pirates’.
Some folks are just religiously ‘hardwired’.
More then half of Americans believe in fairies.
If I told those people there were none, they would just go away shaking their heads at my poor manners.
The fact that science itself is under attack by religions is hardly new.
Religions hate change of any sort.
This is why Islamaphobia is the flavor of the week.
Old, outdated fear flavors you may recall;
Communism
Chinese
Women voting
Same Sex unions
Integrated schools
Interracial marriage
Trade Unions and ‘Right to Work’ laws
Liberals in Lincoln town cars
Black Males
Hippies with long twisted up dirty hair
Rock and Roll
Nazies
Soviets (AKA Russians)
Mafia
Vaxxers
I could go on but my ribbon has run ou
JuanP on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 1:26 pm
This is not Islam’s fault, guys. Lybia had Africa’s highest quality of life until NATO’s intervention turned it into a failed state. Let’s give credit where credit is due. Lybians were relatively OK before we started helping them.
GregT on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 2:13 pm
“Lybians were relatively OK before we started helping them.”
The same could be said for the rest of the world as well, including the planet Earth itself. We have done enough damage already. Now would be a very good time to stop, but we won’t, and the consequence will be felt far and wide. There will be nobody left on the Earth that will be unaffected by western capitalism. Billions will die.
Davy on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 3:42 pm
Ok, I agree NATO did their dirty and deserve blame. But anybody have an opinion on Gadaffi and his loyal supporters Russia and China. Is it ok for a brutal dictator to destroy a country from within like a virus for decades? A virus fed by regimes like China and Russia that have little to no concern for the conduct of that regime.
What about the Lybian opposition? They might disagree with NATO being the bad guy. They did the fighting and dying on the ground where it matters not NATO.
GregT on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 4:03 pm
Davy,
Gadaffi wanted to create an African Union with a gold backed currency. He had plans for an African telecommunications system. He was a threat to the central bankers in the US, and the multinational corporations that have been raping the continent of resources for generations.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/gadhafis-dying-dream-for-african-unity/article567554/
Gaddafi had vast stores of gold, which have disappeared since his assassination.
ht tp://disquietreservations.blogspot.ca/2012/01/did-western-central-bankers-steal.html
“The IMF estimates that the bank has nearly 144 tons of gold in its vaults. In the months leading up to the UN resolution that allowed the US and its allies to send troops into Libya, Muammar al-Gaddafi was openly advocating the creation of a new currency that would rival the United States dollar and the Euro. Gaddafi called upon African and Muslim nations to join an alliance that would make this new currency, the gold dinar, their primary form of money and foreign exchange. They would sell oil and other resources to the US and the rest of the world only for gold dinars. Along with the uprising in Libya, international news channels on August/September 2011 brought several stories about Muammar Gaddafi’s introduction of golden dinar[7] within his “gold-for-oil plan” [8] to possibly trade Libya oil on international markets.[9]”
http ://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/4630-gadhafi-s-gold-money-plan-would-have-devastated-dollar
ht tp://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_gold_dinar
GregT on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 4:33 pm
I guess one could argue that what the central bankers have done to these countries is in the best interests of the USD, but the reality of the matter is, these same people are also robbing the citizens of the US blind, and are using US wealth to further their agenda of world domination. They also continue to kill America’s children in their unjust wars.
Davy on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 4:38 pm
Greg, do you hear me trying to defend the U.S., NATO, or the EU lap dogs? No. I am retorting that Gadaffi lived by the sword and died a coward in a drainage pipe. Lybia’s social fabric was gutted and destroyed by a brutal dictator. Russia and China were his stalwart supporters.
There was a legitimate opposition that did the fighting on its own accord. This surely happened with US and other powers meddling. What is new about that. That is the continuous and redundant conversation on this forum.
Everything comes back to the fault of the U.S. at some point. I admit the US foreign policy has tenicals into most every region but that does not discount a scumbag like Gaddafi and his sins. It does not take secondary blame away from China and Russia that give aid and comfort to a bastard regime.
GregT on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 4:45 pm
Saddam Hussein did something similar that lead to his assassination. He planned to exchange oil for Euros and Gold.
http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,998512,00.html
Time magazine article from Monday, Nov. 13, 2000, Iraq would be invaded and bombed back into the stone age 3 years later.
Does anyone know what happened to this:
ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNkM9o41lb4
GregT on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 4:56 pm
Davy,
I am not faulting the US. I am faulting the corrupt people and institutions that have hijacked the once greatest country in the world, and are currently in the process of stealing all of the wealth there as well. Libya is not better off without Gadaffi, just like Iraq, it is now a failed state. Do you honestly believe this to be coincidental?
Davy on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 5:32 pm
Greg, brutal, corrupt, and megalomaniac dictators sow the seeds of their own destruction. You can blame the US all you like but Iraq and Libya are poor examples for your point. You can include the US in the discussion but you can’t make the US the primary and sole antagonist. You have to include the wonderful Russian and Chinese regimes for all their moral support for these ugly dictators. Then we can include the greedy Europeans for all the corrupt trade deals they were involved with.
The whole matter stinks and the effort to single out the US is just. The fundamental fact is we don’t know if Libya and Iraq would be better because those dictators were so horrible. I also ask who do you think would be better the beneficiaries of these nasty regimes or the people brutalized by those nasty regimes. Regimes like Iraq and Libya eventually turn into failed states with or without help from the outside. These regimes run a cycle. Countries that give aid and comfort to these dictators bear some responsibility. The US is the worst offender especially in Iraq but not Libya.
GregT on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 6:06 pm
The same is being done to Syria as we speak, and the ultimate goal all along has been Iran. These plans for ME destabilization have been in the works for over two decades Davy. All is still going according to plans laid out by AIPAC back in the late 80s.
Davy on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 6:22 pm
Greg, I am not arguing against your point my point is that your point does not let the others off the hook. Iran, Russia, and other ME countries like KSA are all at the game and all guilty. I will allow the US is number one on the most wanted list but please trying to diminish the others won’t fly with me. I have read far too much about the others to know they are not blameless. Syria is a nasty regime aided and comforted by the Russians for decades creating a horrible dynamics that was most responsible for this conflict in the beginning. Are you going to tell me Assad’s nasty regime is OK and bares no responsibility for the current state of affairs of this conflict?
GregT on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 6:45 pm
“Are you going to tell me Assad’s nasty regime is OK and bares no responsibility for the current state of affairs of this conflict?”
No I am not Davy, but what I will say is that the alternative of a radical Islamist state is far worse than the Assad regime. The entire region has been held together by a series of ‘brutal dictators’. Remove them, and millions will be killed, forced from their homelands, and the entire region will become a breeding ground for international terrorism. Exactly what has already occurred will only be made exponentially worse. The war on terror is a self perpetuating war that accomplishes nothing other than to justify the MIC, and to destroy any attempts at national sovereignty in the ME.
GregT on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 6:57 pm
Davy,
On a more agreeable note, I am still patiently awaiting photos of your “Doomstead”. 🙂
Davy on Sat, 14th Feb 2015 7:16 pm
Yea, Greg, I always say leave a sleeping dog lie.
Greg, a photo bucket is on my list to do.
Today I put in 4x50ft grape trellises. I am going to plant Concord, Catawba, Niagara, and Delaware grapes.
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 15th Feb 2015 8:11 am
Davey, are you going to put all those grapes into a tub, walk on them barefoot, and get drunk?
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 15th Feb 2015 8:18 am
Lets add to this list….. things the religious nuts are opposed to…..
Communism
Chinese
Women voting
Same Sex unions
Integrated schools
Interracial marriage
Trade Unions and ‘Right to Work’ laws
Liberals in Lincoln town cars
Black Males
Hippies with long twisted up dirty hair
Rock and Roll
Nazies
Soviets (AKA Russians)
Mafia
Vaxxers
what about other things they hate and fear, such as
Recycling
Composting
City or coastal people
Scyintists (thats how they spell scientist)
East Indians
anti-Lynching laws
cars that get more than 21 mpg
commuting to workplace in something smaller than a monster truck
dancing
higher taxes on the wealthy
concepts involving geology, carbon-dating, or evolution
higher education
Its really kinda sad and pathetic…
that they are so that far backwards.
But ya know, if ya wanna attend church
with a framed picture of Adolf on the wall, and snake charmers and holy-rolling, they are ready to invite you for the service.
It would seem this is a very bad thing because once they are in the majority, they will drag the whole country down into backwards superstitious mediocrity. They are most of the way there, i.e. Jeb Bush for president, how is that for sick, and their sickness won’t peak, just get worse and worse.
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 15th Feb 2015 8:20 am
i forgot ‘organic foods’. i had some backwards mid-westerner railing out his hatred for city people and their organic food, saying the only good food is grown with pesticides, and that yucky organic food was made with awful things like cow manure.
he was 100% serious, not sarcasm, this person wanted his food to be dripping with pesticide, and thought organic type nutrients such as manure were evil.
Bush, Monsanto, and Wal-Mart Justice Roberts have him brain-washed very well… just another obedient religious dummy.
Davy on Sun, 15th Feb 2015 8:31 am
Speeder, I plan on eating the grapes, making juice, and making wine. I don’t drink but fermentation is a great way to preserve food production. I plan on trading and selling the wine production. I have a small still I plan on making grappa with. Until BAU ends I will just give away the wine and grappa that my woman does not drink.