2005 world oil market chronology
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- January 30: LibyaLibyaLibya is an African 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....
holds its first round of oil and natural gas exploration leases since the United StatesUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
ended sanctions against the country.