Mining industry of Chad
In the late 1980s, the only mineral exploited in
Natron occurs naturally in two forms: white and black.
A number of other mineral deposits are known, but none had been commercially exploited by the mid-1980s.
By far the potentially most important resource is
Plans existed in the late 1970s to exploit the deposits at Sédigi and to construct a small refinery at N'Djamena.[1] Those plans lapsed during the conflicts of the late 1970s and early 1980s but were revived in 1986 by the government with the support of the World Bank.[1] The reasons for proceeding with plans to exploit these deposits and build a refinery were clear.[1] The cost of importing petroleum products exceeded the cost of extracting and refining domestic crude, even when international oil prices were low.[1] The plans, which anticipated operations to begin in the early 1990s, included well development in the Sédigi field, a pipeline to N'Djamena, a refinery with a 2,000- to 5,000 barrels per day (790 m3/d) capacity, and the transformation or acquisition of power-generating equipment in the capital to burn the refinery's residual fuel oil.[1] The refinery's output would satisfy 80 percent of Chad's annual fuel needs, including all gasoline, diesel, butane, and kerosene; lubricants and jet fuel, however, would still have to be imported.[1]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-16-024770-5. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.)
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- Brachet, Julien; Scheele, Judith (2019). The Value of Disorder : Autonomy, Prosperity, and Plunder in the Chadian Sahara. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108566315.