Azerbaijan, Baku, March 15 / Trend, A.Taghiyeva /
The State Oil Company of Libya has exported 79.1 million barrels of oil from Jan.1 to March 15, 2012, the company's official website reported on Thursday.
Most Libyan oil was exported to Italy during this period, which makes up 32.17 percent of Libya's total exports, while 13.4 million barrels (17 percent) to China and 7.4 million barrels (9.4 percent) to Spain.
Oil consumption on the Libyan domestic market hit 8.2 million barrels.
The country plans to increase oil production to 1.7 million barrels per day in the spring 2012, which exceeds pre-revolutionary volumes, the company told Trend earlier.
Libya ranks eighth in terms of crude oil producer among 12 OPEC countries and the third - in Africa, after Nigeria and Angola. The main importer of Libyan oil is Italy, followed by Germany, France and Spain.
Libya's proven oil reserves are 45 billion barrels. Libya extracted 1.5 million barrels of oil per day before the Revolution.
