Libya oil and gas map, cropped

Libya is losing billions in oil wealth from smuggling and subsidies


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Issue 471 - 28 Oct 2022 - By John Hamilton | 7 minute read

Fuel smuggling is allegedly being carried out in the port of Benghazi in broad daylight, even as petrol stations in the city and elsewhere across the country run dry, showing how Libya’s hugely expensive fuel subsidy regime is malfunctioning. A recent auditor’s report has set out the costs of the wasteful system and pointed to billions of dollars of oil revenue that remain unaccounted for. John Hamilton investigates.

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