Sudan and CNPC signed three new oil and gas cooperation agreements.

Civilians in New Rier, Unity State, are suffering from water which is contaminated by WNPOC's industry. A German NGO found alarming water contamination by salts and heavy metals.

German NGO Sign of Hope has led a
fact-finding mission which revealed alarming pollution levels. Water contaminated with heavy metals affects 4,000 square kilometers with 300,000 inhabitants

The average of Sudan's actual oil production in 2008/2009 is 470,000 barrels per day according to the minister of energy.

* Sudan output falls short of estimates
* Plans for new oil refinery Port Sudan shelved indefinitely

India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has sold via tender a 600,000 barrel-cargo of heavy sweet Nile Blend crude for December, to Mitsubishi.

The Sudan’s state minister of Energy and Mining, stresses the importance of conducting a proper feasibility study in pursuit of building a less costly oil refinery in Southern Sudan.

Sudan has issued a new tender to sell 1.8 million barrels of heavy sweet Nile Blend crude for December.

In many countries of sub-Saharan Africa, businesses aren't owned by the local people but by Europeans and Asians. This results in a new kind of apartheid, according to Glenn Hubbard. He calls for a new movement against it.

Oil and gas engineering company CPECC, a full-owned subsidiary of CNPC, has won contracts worth 260 million dollar for seven Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects located in Sudan’s Oil Block 6.