With this new report, ECOS is calling on the Swedish, Austrian and Malaysian governments to investigate whether, as a matter of international law, the oil companies Lundin, OMV and Petronas ‘were complicit in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by others during the period 1997-2003.’ TEXT ONLY VERSION

With this new report, ECOS is calling on the Swedish, Austrian and Malaysian governments to investigate whether, as a matter of international law, the oil companies Lundin, OMV and Petronas ‘were complicit in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by others during the period 1997-2003.’ (FULL REPORT)

Human activity in oil concession area 5A in Southern Sudan was mapped based upon Landsat images,with particular focus on the changes in the period between 1999 and 2003 during the preliminary phase of oil exploration and development in this area. The studie shows up to 80% of the traditional farming areas were not in use anymore by 2003.

With this new report, ECOS is calling on the Swedish, Austrian and Malaysian governments to investigate whether, as a matter of international law, the oil companies Lundin, OMV and Petronas ‘were complicit in the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity by others during the period 1997-2003.’

On October 2, 2009, the US Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s 2006 dismissal of the case of the Presbytarian Church of Sudan et. al against Canadian energy company Talisman. The Court wrote that the "Plaintiffs have provided evidence that the government violated customary international law, but they provide no evidence that Talisman acted with the purpose to support the government's offenses". Here, find the full opinion.

The EIA update on Sudan's oil industry statistics from September 2009.

The Global Witness report, Fuelling Mistrust: the need for transparency in Sudan’s oil industry, is the first public analysis of Sudan’s oil figures. It documents how the oil figures published by the Government of National Unity in Khartoum are smaller than the equivalent figures published by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the operator of the oil blocks.(text version)

The UNMIS magazine 'In Sudan' focusses on Sudan's energy sector in its July issue.

The report provides an assessment of the overall situation in the country since the previous report, dated 30 January 2009, as well as an update on the activities of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan

Dossier with facts, figures and analysis on Sudan's Oil Industry