SUDAN : OIL, THE BURNING ISSUE IN THE NORTH-SOUTH SPLIT


  The public jubilation that marked the independence of South Sudan on July 9 did little to hide the fragility of the new state, especially with regards oil revenue. The question of sharing revenue from petroleum - the South's lone resource at present- with Khartoum hasn't yet been decided, and nor have the conditions behind the use of infrastructure to carry its crude to export markets. Repeated negotiations on these issues between North and South since the summer of 2010 have all drawn a blank. A fresh set of talks, which began on July 18, will therefore have to come up with the answers. For their part, the oil companies are cozying up to the authorities in Juba. In the North, the national oil company Sudapet is accelerating exploration in new areas in the hope of finding additional sources of revenue independently of the South.

 
Tough bargaining between North and South
(11 ARTICLES)
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°657 - 24/08/2011
China offers to mediate
With negotiations on the share-out of oil revenue between north and south Sudan due to resume in Addis Ababa on Sept. (...)  [153 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°656 - 20/07/2011
Talking turkey on petroleum
The joyful celebrations marking the independence of South Sudan on July didn’t altogether conceal the new state’s vulnerability, particularly on the question of oil revenue. The issue of sharing revenue from oil, the South’s only resource at present, hasn’t been resolved and nor have the conditions in which oil infrastructure is to be used. (...)  [670 words]   [€8]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°650 - 20/04/2011
Prickly negotiations ahead
The chairman of state-owned Sudapet, Salah Wahbi, who is in charge of negotiating a share-out of oil reserves with the south, will have a fight on his hands during the next round of talks due to be held before the end of the month. (...)  [179 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°646 - 23/02/2011
Oil audit shelved
An audit on the amount of oil produced in Sudan between 2005-2009 that petroleum minister Lual Deng had promised to produce will probably never see the light of day. (...)  [222 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°645 - 09/02/2011
A tricky oil transition
Sudanese president Omar el Bechir finally decided against dismissing all of Khartoum’s oil executives hailing from South Sudan when the results of the referendum on succession were announced in early February. (...)  [188 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°644 - 26/01/2011
How to export crude?
Africa Energy Intelligence has been told by Sudan’s oil ministry, which is headed by a member of South Sudan’s SPLM party, that several possible routes are being examined to export oil from South Sudan in the event of new discoveries. (...)  [153 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°643 - 12/01/2011
A very belated oil audit
With the referendum on South Sudan’s independence scheduled to be held between Jan. (...)  [209 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°643 - 12/01/2011
Lual Deng
Lual Deng, Sudan's oil minister, promised in early January to quickly organize a meeting between the Joint Defence Council (with representatives from north and south) and governors of oil-producing states to avoid violence in or around oilfields which are mainly in the south. (...)  [62 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°635 - 15/09/2010
Formidable Task Awaits Deng Before 2011
A staunch supporter of Sudan’s unity, the country’s new oil minister, Lual Deng would like to see petroleum output surge from 400,000 to 650,000 bpd. With only five months to go before South Sudan’s referendum on independence, Deng, who himself hails from the south, wants to show Sudan has an oil future only if it remains united. (...)  [672 words]   [€8]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°635 - 15/09/2010
South Reviews Oil Options
The joint North-South oil committee set up in August has a lot of work on its plate. (...)  [241 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°632 - 14/07/2010
Rift over Oil Pipeline
Sudan’s new oil minister, Lual Acuek Deng, who hails from South Sudan, has come out formally against building a new oil pipeline between the province of South Sudan and Kenya. (...)  [211 words]   [€1,5]
Oilmen and industrial chiefs woo Juba
(11 ARTICLES)
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°660 - 05/10/2011
New take on sanctions
In a meeting with American companies in mid-September, Washington’s special envoy for Sudan, Princeton Lyman, raised the possibility of modifying sanctions against Khartoum which prevent U. (...)  [177 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°658 - 07/09/2011
Contracts up for revision
South Sudan’s new oil minister, Stephen Dhieu Dau (see page 8), will very shortly start taking action on what the new government views as a priority: (...)  [132 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°655 - 06/07/2011
Shamsul Azhar Abbas
Shamsul Azhar Abbas, the chief executive of Malaysia’s Petronas, held talks on June 25 with his counterpart from China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), Jiang Jeimin, at the company’s headquarters in Beijing. (...)  [81 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°652 - 25/05/2011
Dato’ Shamsul Azhar Abbas
Dato’ Shamsul Azhar Abbas, the chief executive of Malaysia’s Petronas, held talks on May 15 with Sudan’s oil minister, Lual Deng, on how the oil sector will be organized after the country is split in two parts in July. (...)  [79 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°648 - 23/03/2011
Petronas first to deal with Juba
South Sudan’s energy minister, Garang Diing Akuong, met on March 15 in his department’s quarters in Juba with officials from Petronas, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) to assure them their contracts in South Sudan were under no threat. (...)  [224 words]   FREE
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°644 - 26/01/2011
Chinese seek to bid for block B
Africa Energy Intelligence has learned that senior executives of the state-owned Chinese groups Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) informed the South Sudanese authorities in late December that they were interested in buying into block B operated by Total. (...)  [232 words]   [€5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°641 - 08/12/2010
Qatar to Hook Up with Total
A delegation from South Sudan is due to shortly visit Doha for talks with Qatar Petroleum on the oil company forming a partnership with France’s Total on block B. (...)  [326 words]   FREE
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°628 - 19/05/2010
A Refinery for the South?
Anticipating the strong possibility of voters opting for a partition between North and South Sudan in a referendum next year, oil companies are displaying increasing interest in the idea of an autonomous province in the south. (...)  [172 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°625 - 31/03/2010
Trashing Japanese Pipeline
A project by Toyota Tsusho Corp to build an oil pipeline running from South Sudan to Kenya has come under fire from Sudan’s national oil company, Sudapet. (...)  [182 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°624 - 17/03/2010
Tokyo Offers South a Pipeline
Costing an estimated USD 1.5 billion, the new pipeline would allow South Sudan to export its oil if it chooses to break away from the north in 2011. (...)  [263 words]   [€5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°619 - 06/01/2010
How El Bechir Holds a Lock on Oil
Two bills promulgated on December 29 and 30 pave the way for a referendum on self-determination in South Sudan. Scheduled for 2011, the ballot will oblige Sudan’s federal government to share management of the oil sector with the south, the main producer region. (...)  [669 words]   [€8]
How the North is responding
(11 ARTICLES)
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°662 - 03/11/2011
Ali Ahmed Osman
Ali Ahmed Osman, Sudan's oil minister, told the country's parliament on Oct. (...)  [94 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°658 - 07/09/2011
Khartoum pins hopes on block 17
After losing three-quarters of its oil output with the break-up of the country earlier this year, Khartoum has every hope that exploration of block 17 will turn up new and sizable resources. (...)  [248 words]   FREE
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°655 - 06/07/2011
Pitfalls for newcomers to south
Officially, the United States has banned no oil projects in South Sudan and is indeed urging American operators to take part in the development of the new country. (...)  [355 words]   [€5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°655 - 06/07/2011
CNPC commits for long term
Barely four hours after he landed at Beijing airport, Sudanese president Omar El Bechir arranged a first meeting on June 28 with the chief executive of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Jiang Jiemin. (...)  [161 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°652 - 25/05/2011
Sudapet
Sudan’s state secretary for oil, Ali Ahmed Osman, believes that discoveries in the northern part of block 2 operated by CNPC will enable Khartoum to boost its output by 20,000 bpd starting from next year. (...)  [100 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°645 - 09/02/2011
Sudapet
Sudan’s national oil company Sudapet, which will start managing oil assets in northern Sudan in July, has extensive growth potential, according to Ali Ahmad Osmane, state secretary for oil. (...)  [118 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°643 - 12/01/2011
Nile Petroleum
Khartoum, which is gradually preparing itself for the secession of Juba and thus for a drop in oil revenue, has begun to cut back on its expenditure. (...)  [154 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°641 - 08/12/2010
Sudapet
Khartoum is trying to speed up exploration in areas under its control in advance of the referendum in January that will decide whether the south breaks away from the north. (...)  [78 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°640 - 24/11/2010
Sudapet
Sudan’s state minister for petroleum, secretary for oil, Ali Ahmed Osman, a member of president Omar El Bechir’s National Congress Party (NCP) is trying to cheer up North Sudan at present by repeating that it can get by without oil from the south. (...)  [146 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°637 - 13/10/2010
Sudapet
Sudan’s national oil company is currently in talks to buy into concessions in Iraq and Syria. (...)  [122 words]   [€1,5]
AFRICA ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n°630 - 16/06/2010
Khartoum Cut Off from South’s Oil in 2011?
The probable partition of Sudan following a referendum on self-determination next year could deprive the north of much of the country’s oil: the majority of blocks that pump petroleum lie in the south. Khartoum won’t allow such a source of revenue to escape it without a fight but, in the meantime, it is looking frantically for new reserves to make up for those it could lose. (...)  [691 words]   [€8]

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