The world's deepest significant sub-sea oil production is currently in the Gulf of Mexico, at water depths of 1, 200 metres.
The refineries can receive oil via sub-sea pipeline infrastructure, and currently commercial stockpiles are relatively high (national stockpiles are at 1.1 billion barrels).
With over 1m barrels extracted every day, it has become the second-largest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa, and volumes are expected to double by 2008.
They are the second- and fourth-biggest oil producers in sub-Saharan Africa.
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They share the cynicism of many Nigerians, who think the politicians are more eager to grab a share of the revenues of sub-Saharan Africa's biggest oil producer.
One sub-text here is the UN Oil for Food scandal.
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It vies with Angola as sub-Saharan Africa's largest oil exporter, mainly to America, and is the eighth-biggest oil exporter in the world, with stated reserves of 38.5 billion barrels.
Congo-Brazzaville is sub-Saharan Africa's fourth-biggest oil producer , but it does not look rich.
Tiny Congo-Brazzaville, with only 2.6m people, is sub-Saharan Africa's fourth-largest oil producer.
Angola, sub-Saharan Africa's second-largest oil producer, pumps out more than 1.9 million barrels per day and boasts an expanding investment portfolio in its former colonial power, Portugal, and in other parts of Africa.
But you have built the largest non-oil, non-mineral based economy in sub-Saharan Africa.
Green aficionados are familiar with the statistic that the sun bathes the Earth in trillions of barrels of energy (in oil equivalent terms), and less familiar with the fact that total known hydrocarbon resources are also countable in the trillions of barrels (from the oil-sands and ultra-deep-water sub-salt fields, to methane hydrates and coal, not to mention shale gas).
Plastic floating in the five sub-tropical gyres of the world, and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, are two petroleum disasters.
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