IIRC Libya provides a provides a lot of Italy's oil also remember this
"The release of the Lockerbie bomber from prison would liberate Britain’s largest industrial company from a string of problems hampering its $900 million (£546 million) Libyan gas projects, industry sources claimed last night.BP, the oil giant, signed a deal with Libya in 2007 to explore for gas in the west of the country and offshore."
Al-Megrahi’s release ‘would free BP’ to join the rush for Libya’s oil - Times Online