Sudan offers to share oil expertise with Uganda
October 1, 2009 (KAMPALA) – Sudan today expressed readiness to provide the necessary technical advice to the neighboring Uganda in its efforts to produce oil in the near future, Dow Jones reported today.
Oil reserves discovered so far on the Ugandan side of the Lake Albert rift basin are estimated at 1 billion barrels. Uganda is set to start on an early oil production scheme in the fourth quarter of 2009 with an initial production of around 5,000 barrels a day.
Speaking on the Ugandan television, Sudanese ambassador to Uganda, Ali Hussein Award, said hat Sudan was ready to share its expertise in oil production with Uganda. “The Sudanese government is ready to cooperate with Uganda in developing its oil sector, including establishing a refinery,” he said.
The Ambassador further said Sudan is also ready to resolve outstanding border disputes with Uganda along the common border to ensure peace and stability.
The Albertine rift stretches from southern Sudan through the Lake Albert valley to southwest Uganda.
The northern part of Albertine rift has been unstable for many years due to the rebel insurgency of Lord’s Resistance Army.
Since 2006, U.K.-based Tullow Oil PLC and Heritage Oil Corp. have been drilling a number of oil wells on the Ugandan side of the Albertine rift.
Uganda expects to reach full-scale oil production in the next five to six years.
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oshay
Sudan offers to share oil expertise with Uganda
Is the Sudanese Ambassador dumb? After Musevini threatened arrest of our president you want to share oil expertise?
mohammed osman
Sudan offers to share oil expertise with Uganda
The man museveni has been our number one enemy of islam and sudan for years, do not gives him anything. He deserves a slap with a shoes on his ugly face to say no to him and his conpiracies against our country by supporting rebels in south. We will only offer LRA as present to this ugandar savages.