Kufra plant hoping to generate power for thousands
(21 Nov 2017) LEADIN:
Maintenance teams have begun work to repair Kufra Power Plant in Libya.
The station has three units for generating electricity but only one is operational.
This means tens of thousands of people will be short of electricity until it is fixed.
STORYLINE:
Kufra Gas Power Plant feeds the city of Kufra and surrounding areas with vital electricity.
But its creaking infrastructure has been struggling.
Two out of its three units have failed, drastically cutting the supply.
But the Libyan General Electricity Company started a major maintenance programme to get it back up and running.
Anwar Khairallah, Head of General Maintenance Department, says replacement parts have arrived - they are just waiting for an expert to fit them into the machinery.
We are waiting for the foreign installation company, which could possibly come this month, so they will install the existing spare parts which have now arrived from abroad, he says.
Once the first and second units are both working properly, electricity output will shoot up.
Khairallah says it will rise from 20 megawatts to 50, equivalent to the consumption of the whole Kufra area.
Technical failures have meant the plant has been operating with a reduced capacity for several months.
Ibrahim Saleh, Head of Efficiency and Fuel Department, says they have problems fuelling the station.
The facility was out of operation at the end of July due to a lack of fuel after a strike by the oil company drivers who bring the fuel to the station.
And Hussein Fakroun, Head of Operations Department, says fixing problems is hampered by the country's chaos.
The situation of security and financial matters in the country have overshadowed us and prevented us from maintaining the first unit. But in the coming period, God willing, maintenance will be done, he says.
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Scores killed in tribal warfare in southern Libya
(25 Feb 2012)
1. Various of checkpoint run by the African Tabu tribe on the outskirts of town
2. Mid of Tabu tribe member sitting in chair with gun
3. Close-up of ammunition on table
4. Mid of damaged building
5. Various of damaged school room
6. Tabu tribe members driving in truck
7. Close-up of tribe members holding unexploded rocket
8. Mid of hole in wall of building purportedly caused by rocket
9. Tribe member holding up Libyan identity card
10. People on rooftop overlooking Kufra
11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Khadija Gomaa Alsanusi, Resident of Kufra and member of the Tabu tribe:
There is no good, there is no good. If there was good help, they (the Libyan government) would had offered it to us from the beginning. There is no more good.
12. Various of wounded Tabu people and children in hospital
13. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mashalla Klakore Ramadan, Alkufra resident from Tabu tripe (++SOUNDBITE STARTS WITH SHOT OF DAMAGED WALL BEFORE PANNING TO SPEAKER++)
We are here, we do not have any other place to go, but if mercenaries or any outsider came to Kufra, I swear, I swear, we will sacrifice with our lives for the nation. I swear, I swear, we will sacrifice with our lives for Kufra and the east and the west to the south.
14. Mid of hole in roof of building caused by rocket, tilt down to room
15. Mid of queue of cars at petrol station
16. Close-up of man filling car with petrol
17. Mid of military trucks in street
STORYLINE:
The men at the checkpoint on the outskirts of Kufra - a desert town in southern Libya - are heavily armed.
They're members of the African Tabu tribe - and in recent days they've clashed with the powerful Arab tribe of al-Zwia in the remote border area where Libya, Chad and Sudan meet.
The region is a hub for the smuggling of African migrants, goods and drugs.
According to witnesses, tribal warfare there earlier this week left scores of civilians dead.
One ambulance worker told the Associated Press on Tuesday that 50 people were killed by rockets, mortars and gunfire rocking residential areas of Kufra.
Another witness said that shops were closed, no one could walk in the street, and that if one tribe took over a square, the other would open fire and drive it out.
The al-Zwia and the Tabu are old rivals.
The Tabu had long complained of discrimination under former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Since February 11, the fight has descended into an all-out confrontation with other smaller Arab tribes joining al-Zwia against the Tabu, residents of the area say.
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the leader of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council, said on Tuesday that Gadhafi's regime loyalists are seeding sedition in Kufra.
However, he declined to elaborate on which of the tribes are connected to the former regime.
NTC leaders often blame problems in post-revolutionary Libya on remnants of Gadhafi's regime, usually without proof.
Meanwhile, Salem Samadi, who heads a revolutionary militia and has tried to mediate a truce between the two sides, blamed the outbreak of violence on a fight over smuggling.
The damage to Kufra was apparent on Friday.
Several buildings - including a schoolroom - appeared to have been hit by incoming fire.
Some residents even showed off a rocket which had purportedly failed to explode.
Others seemed disconsolate.
There is no good, there is no good, said Khadija Gomaa Alsanusi, a member of the Tabu tribe.
If there was good help, they (the Libyan government) would had offered it to us from the beginning. There is no more good.
At a local hospital, doctors tended to injured adults and children, purportedly also members of the Tabu tribe.
Meanwhile, residents were queuing on Friday to fill up their cars with petrol.
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Libya's Great Man Made River by Muammar Gadaffi | A Short Film
World's Largest Irrigation Project Ever.
$70 Trillion worth of Fresh Water basins in libya - Libya's Blue gold
* In Libya there are four major underground basins, these being the Kufra basin, the Sirte basin, the Morzuk basin and the Hamada basin, the first three of which contain combined reserves of 35,000 cubic kilometres of water.
These vast reserves offer almost unlimited amounts of water for the Libyan people.
* In the 1960s during oil exploration deep in the southern Libyan desert, vast reservoirs of high quality water were discovered in the form of aquifers.
* Thus Gadaffi, started the construction for the Phase I of the $25 Billion Great Man made River Project in 1984.
The Great Man-Made River (GMR) is a network of pipes that supplies water from the Sahara Desert in Libya, from the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System fossil aquifer. It is the world's largest irrigation project.
As of now, almost all three phases has been finished by the Libyan administration .
* It carries more than five million cubic metres of water per day across the desert to coastal areas, vastly increasing the amount of arable land. The cost of one cubic meter of water equals 35 cents.
The cubic meter of desalinized water is $3.75.
* Scientists estimate the amount of water to be equivalent to the flow of 200 years of water in the Nile River.
Here is the $70 trillion Blue Gold in Libya, that caught the most attention and Love of Zionist Bankers.
نبذة عن ليبيا / About Libya
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Area / 1760000
Population / 50,000,000
Border / from the north Mediterranean Sea from the south Chad and from the east Egypt and from the west Algeria
Topography of Libya
Libya covers an area of 1,759,540 square kilometers (679,362 square miles), making it the 17th largest in the world by area. It is somewhat smaller than Indonesia in the land area, and roughly equal to that of Alaska. It is bordered to the north by the Mediterranean Sea, to the west by Tunisia and Algeria, to the southwest by Niger, to the south by Chad and Sudan and from the east by Egypt. Libya lies between latitudes 19 ° C and 34 ° N, linear length 9 ° and 26 ° E.
The Libyan coast is taller than any African country overlooking the Mediterranean. [77] [78] With a length of 1,770 kilometers (1,100 miles). Where there is a part of the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya called the Libyan Sea. The climate is predominant in most of the country's dry areas and between desert and semi-desert. With the exception of northern regions with a temperate Mediterranean climate. [79]
Natural hazards come in the form of hot seasonal streams, dry, and sandstorms known in Libya as (tribal). It lasts from one to four days during spring and fall. The oases are also spread throughout Libya, most notably in Ghadames and Kufrah.
The Libyan desert has been modified
The Sahara covers large parts of the Libyan territory, with the exception of the north-east and north-west of the country
The Libyan desert covers part of Libya, including vast areas that are very arid. [43] In some places, years may pass without precipitation, and even rainfall in the southern highlands is rare and may sometimes reach once every 5-10 years. In Oweinat, in the southeast of Libya, for example, in 2006 the last rainfall occurred in September 1998. [80] There are depressions in eastern Libya in the Libyan desert, with a group of oases such as Jagbub and Jallow.
On September 13, 1922, the town of Azizia, southwest of Tripoli, recorded an air temperature of 57.8 degrees Celsius (136.0 degrees Fahrenheit) and was considered a world record. [81] However, in September 2012, that world record of 57.8 ° C was canceled by the World Meteorological Organization. [82]
There are a few small scattered uninhabited oases, usually associated with major depressions, where water can be found by digging for a few feet in depth. In the west there is a wide-spread group of oases in shallow, interconnected valleys, such as the oases in Kufra and Tazerbo. [80] Apart from the cliffs, the vast flat plain objected to a series of highlands and mountain ranges in the middle of the Libyan desert, near the Libyan-Egyptian-Sudanese border triangle.
A little further to the south are the huge mountain ranges such as the Arcno mountains, the Awainat and the Mount of Kiso. These ancient granite mountains, formed long before the sand and surrounding desert. Arno and West Owinat are a mountain chain link very similar to those in the mountains of Al Aar. Eastern Oweinat (the highest point in the Libyan desert) is a sandstone plateau adjacent to the granitic part of the west. [80] To the north of Awainat are scattered with the remains of eroded volcanic mountains. The discovery of oil in the 1950s coincided with the discovery of a vast aquifer under much of the country. The water in this underground reservoir dates back to pre-glacial times and the Great Sahara itself. [83] This area also contains the two arcino pillars, which were formed by a very powerful collision of space. [84]
City Population
1 Tripoli 2,220,000 [1]
2 Benghazi 1,001,000 [1]
3 Misrata 350,000 [2]
4 white 250,000 [3]
5 Corner 234,000
6 Zlitan 200,000 [4]
7 Ajdabiya 184,820
8 Tobruk 108,771
9 سبحا 103,743
10 5 88,317
11 darn 80,000 [1]
Sabratha
13 Zuwara 32,893
The infidels
The lawn
Tarhona
17 Sirte 48,504
18 Greian 46,455
19 Mislatives
Benny Walid
21 Zintan 35,097
22 Beautiful 75,344
23
24 شحات 28,818
25 Opry 27,796
26 Aphrn 45,000
The Fathers 26,600
Rikdalain 35,831
Dome
30 TAURFHA 24,223
31 May 23,222
Murtazek 22,395
Brega
34 Hoon 19,816
35 Gallo 18,873
Al - Ajeelat
37 Nalut 17,146
Salouq
39
40
Ras Lanuf
42 Arabs 12,600
43 and Dan 12,372
44 Tocra 11.723
Brac 11,638
Ghadames
47 GATT
48
Sousse
Desert town produces high quantities of fruits
(3 Sep 2018) LEADIN
A desert town in Libya has become a centre of fruit production, with farms growing everything from pears and grapes to tropical mangoes.
The town of Kufra is located in the heart of the Sahara, yet has some of the highest fruit productivity in Libya.
STORYLINE
In an isolated town in the middle of the Sahara desert, apples, pears and mangoes ripen healthily on trees.
Kufra is situated in the far south eastern part of Libya. It's famous for the cultivation of dates and olives, as well as tropical fruits, due to the unusual temperature of its climate.
The area is characterised by a desert climate and is close to the equator. This mean it combines a desert climate with a Mediterranean climate, which makes the planting of fruits particularly successful.
They grow particularly well since the town also lies on a vast reservoir of fresh groundwater, and has a group of the largest oases in North Africa.
Farmers have been able to grow many fruits which were previously non-existent in the region, after seeds were imported from the 1980s:
Including mangoes, it is successful here of course, and they are produced here, as well as avocado and custard apple, and also jack fruit, which is a tropical fruit of course, as well as Mediterranean plants and citrus in general, such as orange and mandarin, explains Agricultural researcher, Ahmed Lamin.
He adds that winter temperatures reach below zero, affecting plants, but that over time they have acquired immunity against frost, becoming resistant and germinating well.
Kufra's mango plantation has been a great success and it's now normal to see mango trees in every house.
The State of Libya has established a group of model farms officially through the Ministry of Agriculture's palm project.
Agriculture in Kufra and individual experiments started in the early seventies and were officially carried out through the Nakheel project submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture, explains Mohamed Saleh, Director of the Kufra fruit trees project.
We then re-experimented and we brought in varieties from Egypt in 2002, in addition to acquiring a quantity of seedlings in 2008 from the Burkina Faso and Mali.
According to Saleh the desert town has become a great economic asset for the country because of its thousands of productive fruit trees.
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NATO: Targets
NATO video shows pro-Qadhafi forces hiding in and firing multiple rockets from within a mosque. The video was taken by a NATO surveillance platform on 10 June over Zlitan in northwestern Libya. By hiding military assets in cities, mosques and schools the regime deliberately puts innocent people's lives in danger. Footage provided by the Nato Channel. For more military news visit dvidshub.net
OXY - Finding oil in Libya in the mid-1960's
OXY (Occidental Petroleum, Inc) in Libya - 1966
From OXY TODAY & YESTERDAY (Number Nine, 1977)
Note: The mid 1960's average barrel of oil price in 2010 prices is $20/bbl.
In March of 1966, the concessions were awarded. Bid blocks 43 and 42-B went to Occidental. The two proposals in the Oxy application which opened the doors to the Libyan oil fields concerned the construction of an ammonia plant to utilize the natural gas which was being burned off in the oil fields at the time, and the development of an agricultural program in the Kufra area. Thus, the Libyans were being given an opportunity to increase their employment and feed themselves at the same time, an offer hard to refuse.
But Occidental was in Libya for oil, and in mid-November, discovery well D1-102 was tested at the rate of 14,860 barrels per day. A sky-high pillar of smoke and flame rose from the burning pits, and the roar and vibrations from the test shook the desert for miles, preventing seismic testing ten miles away. Several months later, with the drilling of our first test on our other concession, we discovered the A reef, the test of which flowed at 44,000 barrels per day. As the desert shook and roared, Dr. Hammer flew in with the Libyan petroleum minister, Khalifa Musa. Driving from the oil-can marked runway to the drillsite, they passed an abandoned camp, left by the previous concession holders exploring in that area. Dr. Hammer pointed out to the minister that here was an example of Occidental's success where others had failed. This was the discovery of the first major reef in Libya, and a truly great accomplishment. That was the day that changed Occidental, recalls Richard Vaughn. We were on the road to becoming, if not a major oil company, a very significant factor in the international oil business.
In June, 1967, however, the Six Day War exploded in the Middle East, causing a rather unsettled state of affairs for everyone in the area. Jim Blom tells of a remarkable business decision made by Dr. Hammer at the time.
The war disrupted our situation in Libya rather severely and caused the exodus of most of the Americans by airlift. The oil field at that time had only been demonstrated by one well, and the investment climate in Libya was very risky, based on current events and the shaky status of Americans in Libya. So a decision had to be made if we were to continue with the development of this oil field, which involved the construction of a 120-mile pipeline and a terminal on the Mediterranean Coast at Zuetina.
When the political news was the blackest, the decision was made to go ahead with the development of the field. Orders were placed and purchases were made to get this discovery on stream as fast as possible and we were able to get on stream just eight months after that decision with a million barrel-per-day capacity pipeline and terminal. A fantastic record!
Libya
Libya (Arabic: ليبيا Lībyā), (Amazigh: ⵍⵉⴱⵢⴰ Libya), officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west. The three traditional parts of the country are Tripolitania, Fezzan and Cyrenaica. With an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the 17th largest country in the world.
The largest city and capital, Tripoli, is home to 1.7 million of Libya's 6.4 million people. In 2009 Libya had the highest HDI in Africa and the fifth highest GDP (PPP) per capita in Africa, behind Equatorial Guinea, Seychelles, Gabon, and Botswana. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world and the 17th-highest petroleum production.
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Libya - PM's spokesman confirms arrest of Gadhafi's former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senoussi
(17 Mar 2012) The men at the checkpoint on the outskirts of Kufra - a desert town in southern Libya - are heavily armed.
They're members of the African Tabu tribe - and towards the end of March 2012 they've clashed with the powerful Arab tribe of al-Zwia in the remote border area where Libya, Chad and Sudan meet.
The region is a hub for the smuggling of African migrants, goods and drugs.
According to witnesses, tribal warfare there earlier this week left scores of civilians dead.
One ambulance worker told the Associated Press that 50 people were killed by rockets, mortars and gunfire rocking residential areas of Kufra.
Another witness said that shops were closed, no one could walk in the street, and that if one tribe took over a square, the other would open fire and drive it out.
The al-Zwia and the Tabu are old rivals.
The Tabu had long complained of discrimination under former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.
Since February 11, the fight has descended into an all-out confrontation with other smaller Arab tribes joining al-Zwia against the Tabu, residents of the area say.
Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the leader of Libya's ruling National Transitional Council, said on March 22nd that Gadhafi's regime loyalists are seeding sedition in Kufra.
However, he declined to elaborate on which of the tribes are connected to the former regime.
NTC leaders often blame problems in post-revolutionary Libya on remnants of Gadhafi's regime, usually without proof.
Meanwhile, Salem Samadi, who heads a revolutionary militia and has tried to mediate a truce between the two sides, blamed the outbreak of violence on a fight over smuggling.
The damage to Kufra was apparent on March 25th.
Several buildings - including a schoolroom - appeared to have been hit by incoming fire.
Some residents even showed off a rocket which had purportedly failed to explode.
Others seemed disconsolate.
There is no good, there is no good, said Khadija Gomaa Alsanusi, a member of the Tabu tribe.
If there was good help, they (the Libyan government) would had offered it to us from the beginning. There is no more good.
At a local hospital, doctors tended to injured adults and children, purportedly also members of the Tabu tribe.
Another Tabu resident of Kufra told AP: We are here, we do not have any other place to go, but if mercenaries or any outsider came to Kufra, I swear, I swear, we will sacrifice with our lives for the nation.
Meanwhile, residents were queuing on March 25th to fill up their cars with petrol.
During the previous week lines of trucks and cars carrying hundreds of families were seen streaming out of the town on the highway leading towards the populated areas of the coast - some 500 miles (800 kilometres) away.
***
On March 17th Mauritania said it had arrested former Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senoussi, who was one of the most prominent figures in the ousted regime of Moammar Gadhafi and is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Al-Senoussi helped direct efforts to quash the rebellion against Gadhafi's rule in 2011, and the ICC has indicted him, along with Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam, on charges of crimes against humanity.
Mauritania's state information agency said in a statement that al-Senoussi was arrested at the airport in the capital Nouakchott, upon arrival from the Moroccan city of Casablanca.
It said he was carrying a fake Malian passport.
A spokesman for Libya's ruling National Transitional Council, Mohammed al-Hareiz, said the arrest was not yet confirmed.
Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam was arrested in November 2011 by fighters in Libya's remote southern desert.
Nasser al-Manee, Libya's interim government spokesman, confirmed the arrest by Mauritania's officials.
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libya 1 nato rebel's
Libya (Arabic: ليبيا Lībyā) is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. Libya is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west.
With an area of almost 1.8 million square kilometres (700,000 sq mi), Libya is the fourth largest country in Africa by area, and the 17th largest in the world.[5] The largest city, Tripoli, is home to 1.7 million of Libya's 6.4 million people. The three traditional parts of the country are Tripolitania, Fezzan, and Cyrenaica. Before the outbreak of the civil war (as of 2009), Libya had the highest HDI in Africa and the fourth highest GDP (PPP) per capita in Africa, behind Seychelles, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Libya has the 10th-largest proven oil reserves of any country in the world and the 17th-highest petroleum production.[6]
As a result of the 2011 Libyan civil war, there are currently two entities claiming to be the de jure governing authority in Libya.[7] The Tripoli-based National Transitional Council, led by Mustafa Abdul Jalil, controls all of the country except parts of Sirte, and uses the short-form name Libya for the Libyan state, but has also on occasion referred to it in the long-form as the Libyan Republic.[8] The remnants of the previous regime and its institutions, led by Muammar Gaddafi, refer to the Libyan state as the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and are nominally based in the city of Sirte.[9][10] The United Nations recognises the National Transitional Council as the sole legal representative of the country.[11][12]