The long marginalized Sudanese have not benefited significantly, if at all, from oil development. Instead, displacement linked to oil development remains a problem for some marginalized Sudanese, in particular the local people in the oil areas. Oil companies have rapidly expanded oil activities in ‘peacetime’, pressuring some people to leave their ancestral homelands with no compensation.

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

Power Point presentation with graphs and analysis

Issue on China and Africa

Briefing to the NGO community in Southern Sudan. Power Point presentation