February 15, 2012 (JUBA) – Chinese oil companies operating in South
Sudan face the possibility of expulsion if it is proven that they are
complicit in stealing the country’s oil, a senior official said here
today
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South Sudan also warned that it will sue any party that is proven to have facilitated or bought oil “stolen” by Khartoum.
Today the country’s chief negotiator in the oil talks Pagan Amum went further in this regard and singled out Chinese companies.
"Our relations with China are beginning but they are of course having
difficulties now because of the role of some Chinese companies or
individuals covering up some of this stealing," Amum told reporters in
Juba according to Reuters.
"We will make them pay the cost or else they are out of the country," he added, without naming the firms.
State oil firms from China, India and Malaysia own majority shares in
the three consortium’s extracting oil in South Sudan. China is the
biggest buyer of South Sudanese oil and has built the most oil
facilities in both countries.
Amum also said the Sudanese oil ministry had ordered
Malaysian-Chinese pipeline operator Petrodar this week to switch on a
tie-in pipeline to divert 120,000 bpd of southern oil to Sudan’s
refineries.
February 8, 2012 (DALLAS) – The government of South Sudan is in talks
with a Texas-based company to explore options for building an oil
pipeline which would serve as an alternative to the one passing through
the territories of Sudan.
According to South Sudan information minister Barnaba Marial
Benjamin, the unidentified company could start working the project in as
soon as six months.
He offered no further details.
The official further said that South Sudan had signed a memorandum of
understanding with Ethiopia to construct an oil pipeline passing
through Djibouti.
A source close to the Juba government said that Ethiopia’s Prime
Minister Meles Zenawi gave his approval to the idea. It is not clear if
Djibouti did the same yet. Eritrea is also an option on the table even
though its president Isaias Afewerki has yet to respond.
Last week, the former Sudan oil minister Lual Deng said that
exporting the oil through Djibouti would be a shorter distance than
using the established pipeline going all the way from South Sudan to the
Red Sea.
South Sudan minister said that Toyota Company has started feasibility
studies on the Lamu pipeline project which was signed recently with
Kenya.
The landlocked nation is currently involved in an escalating dispute with Khartoum over the payment of transit fees for its oil.・・・・・・
February 8, 2012 (KHARTOUM) –
The Sudanese government has described
allegations contained in a new report on Khartoum’s use of arms
purchased from Russia and China in the western region of Dar
fur as the
vanguard of an international conspiracy to impose more sanctions on the
country.
Sudan’s western most region of Darfur has been under an arms embargo
imposed by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) since July 2004
against the background of a conflict between the government and rebel
groups accusing it of marginalising the region. The UNSC also formed a
taskforce to monitor the enforcement of the ban.
A report released on Thursday by Amnesty International
(AI), a London based human rights group, has accused Russia and China
along with Belarus of continuing to flout the embargo by supplying arms
to the Khartoum based government.・・・・・・・・
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