2014

South Sudan has called on Zimbabwe to help protect its oilfields, which are increasingly under threat from rebel forces, state-owned South Sudan Television quoted the country's foreign affairs minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, as saying on Wednesday 26-03.

South Sudan president Salva Kiir has sacked the mining and petroleum minister of Upper Nile state, with the decision generating mixed reactions.

Warring factions in South Sudan are battling for control of the country’s dwindling oil production in a sign both sides have given up on faltering peace talks and are instead seeking a military and economic stranglehold over the cash-strapped country.

The capital of South Sudan's main oil-producing region was divided between the army and rebels Thursday after the worst fighting since a January cease-fire stoked jitters in global oil markets. Diplomats say the latest violence has cast doubts over the peace talks.

Rebels on Sunday 12-01 said they were gearing up to recapture the town of Bentiu, which government forces regained last week, raising the spectre of further battles over the control of Unity State’s oilfields.

South Sudan’s minister of Petroleum and Mining has arrived in Khartoum on a previously unannounced visit to discuss restarting oil production in Unity state following government army’s recapture of the key state from rebel control.

The Swedish criminal investigation against Lundin Petroleum might be delayed becasue of the current conflict in South Sudan. However, the investigation will continue outside of South Sudan, says the Prosecutor.

Commissioner of Melut County says the security situation is calm and stable in the oil producing area following the conflict in various parts of Upper Nile State.

Sudan's Oil Minister has revealed that the flow of oil from the Adariel oilfield in South Sudan and pumped through pipelines to Port Sudan on the Red Sea has been increased.

Sudan backed away on Tuesday 07-01 from comments that South Sudan had requested talks on the deployment of a joint force to protect its oil-producing regions.