Britain wants to increase exports to Sudan and invest more in Sudan, particularly in its oil and services sectors. ICC warrant for Bashir won't stop bilateral trade.

CNPC attempted to refute western media's claims that the company has adopted predatory and neocolonial development patterns in Sudan in its "2009 Corporate Social Responsibility Report" released in Beijing on May 19.

German NGO ECCHR filed a criminal complaint against Lahmeyer International over the abuses in constructing the Merowe Dam on the Nile in Northern Sudan. According to ECCHR, their reckless instigation of this building project left several thousand people homeless and destroyed their livelihoods.

In Unity State major concern arise from water contamination by oil spills, reduction of crop yields and clearance of large forests.

Southern Sudan intends to implement a review of all oil contracts inked between Khartoum and overseas oil players. Southern Sudan doesn't plan to revoke existing deals, but wants to assert a higher level of control over its oil industry than currently exists.

Angelina Teny, Sudan’s State Minister of Energy and Mining and candidate for Unity State's Governorship, said that drilling of oil should benefit the people living in the oil areas. Another important issue according to her is the need to improve economic transformations so as to enable sustainability of economic gains.

Sudan wants oil companies to develop a new oilfield, Block 12b, in its troubled northwestern Darfur region. The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) warns "companies not to deal with the regime in Khartoum in oil exploration".

Indian Petroleum Minister Murli Deora in January pitched for more oil acreage for ONGC in Sudan while seeking resolution of dispute over payments for a pipeline that the state-owned firm built in the oil-rich nation.

CNPC has signed three oil and gas cooperation agreements with the government of Sudan.

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.