Bebidja is an area of
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
. It has large
oil reserves and has such been of interest to foreign oil companies such as
ExxonMobil
ExxonMobil Corporation (commonly shortened to Exxon) is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, and was formed on November 30, ...
,
Shell and
Elf.
[Rosenblum, P. (2000) 'Pipeline Politics in Chad', Current History, p. 197]
References
Geography of Chad
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