This 2011 map depicts all of Libya's oil fields, oil pipelines, oil refineries and oil storage facilities. Also included are the major oil areas, along with gas pipelines and gas fields.

The drilling of oil wells in Libya was first authorised by the Petroleum Law of 1955, and nowadays oil reserves in Libya are believed to be the largest in Africa and the ninth largest in the world with 41.5 billion barrels (as of 2007).