Sudan will invite bids from firms to operate in six new oil and gas blocks early next year, the oil minister said on Monday, as the country moves to compensate for the loss of the crude-producing south.

صناعة النفط في السودان
عشية الاستفتاء
حقائق وتحليل

The report 'Sudan's Oil Industry on The Eve of the Referendum: Facts and Analysis' - English Version was first published in December 2010

The government of the republic of South Sudan says it is reviewing contracts for oil operating companies to avoid future damages to people and the environment.

Contracts between China and South Sudan must be reviewed as the existing contract was signed when Sudan was still one country.

Sudan’s north-south halves and Ethiopia will benefit greatly from striking a deal to exchange the former’s oil with the latter’s electricity, a new study has argued.
Horn of Africa’s leading powers, Sudan, an independent south Sudan and Ethiopia, face remarkably similar challenges in terms of core–periphery inequalities, food and energy production, climate change and poor infrastructure, says the London-based think-tank Chatham House in a paper released this month.

Report on the 2-day conference 'Sudan's Oil Industry after the Referendum' held in Juba, December 2010.It contains recommendations with regards to the post-referendum arrangements, petroleum policy, company-community relations, compensation, transparency, security, land rights and the environment.

GoNU and GoSS should establish a fully-fledged audit system to cater for the oil industry’s socio-economic, environmental, and security impact after the south’s referendum on independence, a two-day oil conference resolved. It was also recommended that oil companies compensate communities for past and current injustices.

A Chinese oil worker who was kidnapped in Sudan’s state of South Kordofan on November 26 was released the next day, according to the Chinese embassy in Khartoum.

A German human rights organization is pleading for action to save the Sudd, one of the world largest swamplands, located in southern Sudan, which the group says is threatened by oil extraction activities.

PetroChina will accelerate an upgrade to a new, southern China refinery so that it can avoid processing oil from Sudan. The refinery was designed mostly to handle the type of crude oil from Sudan. The U.S. restriction is said to be one of the reasons for accelerating the upgrade works, with the poor economic benefit of the Sudanese crude being another.