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This Is The Marsa Al Brega Page Of Libyan Travels

Brega or Marsa Al Brega is in Libya, North Africa. It is on the Mediterranean coast. It is about a 1000 km east of Tripoli, the capital of Libya. Many expatriate workers have lived in Brega on the the big oil refinery there. As well as the Oil Refinery there is a Gas Plant, Ammonia Plant, Naptha Plante, A Marina for Oil Tankers, Power Station and Deslaination Plant.

The smoking gas plant seen through the woods near the canteen

Marsa Al Brega is home to the one of the biggest oil refineries in North Africa. Libyan oil is known as Light Sweet Crude oil and is easily refined into many chemical by products for agriculture and industry. The oil refinery is a chemical plant with a Naphtha plant, an Ammonia Plant, A Gas Plant,and two Ammonia Plants. The smoke from the gas plant sometimes blocks out the sky line and trails away into the distance African horizion.

The Plant viewed from the front door of our house

I worked in Brega during the 90s and then again from 2002 to 2006 as an English language teacher. The training centre is Tadreeb in Libyan Arabic. I have taught EFL all over the world. The Libyan students were some of my most pleasant students.

For more information about conditions of service at The Sirte Oil Company click this link to Daves's ESl Cafe and read the comments by 'Biffen Bridge'.

The plant viewed from the 'Tadreeb', English Language Training Center, made into a post card for workers to print out and send to their friends and families back home

Sometimes we had a break from the Brega oil refinery and travelled to the Green mountain area in eastern Libya and visited, Qasir Libia, Al Bayder, The temple of zeus, Cyrene, Leptis Magna, Apollonia, Benghazi, Tobruk, Al Bidri and many other pl aces.

A shadow self portrait outside the entrance to the tadreeb

Other times we travelled west from the Brega oil refinery and travelled to the ancient ruins at Sabratha and to the capital of Libya, Tripoli.

The Liquefied Natural Gas Plant produces and stores LNG

These water tanks acted as a landmark for the shocked and apalled newly arrived workers

The plant at dawn taken as I cycled to work in the morning

The canteen and Plant at night with the garden in the foreground.

I took these photographs in our (Ron's) garden in Marsa Al Brega in Libya

One October we set off early on a cool autumn Saturday morning catching the company bus to Benghazi on our way to meet out driver who was to take us to our first step on the journey, the charming Qasir Libia...............

Brega, Libya, North Africa.

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