Sudan President forms taskforce to review oil production
March 13, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan President Omer Al-Bashir has formed a high-level committee to select a foreign firm to review figures of oil production in Sudan during the last five years in order to “refute allegations” of non-transparency in the oil-sector.
North and South Sudan have been splitting proceeds of crude oil roughly 50:50 as per 2005’s peace deal which ended nearly half a century of north-south civil war and allowed the south to vote for secession from the north in a referendum earlier this year. South Sudan will be declared officially independent in July this year.
The high-level committee would be chaired by the minster of oil Lual Deng, who represents South Sudan’s ruling party, SPLM, and include as members the federal auditor and auditor of the South Sudan government.
Its task is to select a “foreign company” to carry out a review of the oil produced in Sudan from 2005 until December 2010.
Lual Deng told the official SUNA that the President had instructed the committee to complete its mission before 8 July in order to “achieve transparency and refute allegations raised by some quarters.”
An anti-corruption NGO based in the UK, Global Witness, in September 2009 published a report identifying significant discrepancies between the oil production figures published by the Sudanese government and the ones published by the leading oil company operating in the country, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), saying figures released by Sudan were smaller by 9% to 26% than those produced by CNPC.
The same organization this year released another report in which it urged north and south Sudan to strike a new oil-sharing deal which includes provisions for “transparency, independent monitoring and a dispute resolution mechanism,” before the south becomes independent in July.
Separately, Lual said that he had briefed President Al-Bashir on the currently-active oilfields whose production ranges from 450 to 500 barrels per day, as well as ongoing operations to improve existing fields and conduct more exploration activities and studies for new squares.
The minister further revealed ongoing arrangements to contract a UAE-based company to carry out an assessment of Sudan’s oil reserves.
Sudan said this month that the total net revenues of its oil production in January reached 461, 43 million US dollars of which south Sudan will receive 192, 78 million US dollars.
In a related development, the secretary-general of the ministry of oil in Sudan, Mohamed Omar, said on Sunday that his ministry wants oil companies to increase production.
He said that the ministry is willing to remove all obstacles facing oil companies in order to increase oil production and exploration in the country.
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Sala Gai
Sudan President forms taskforce to review oil production
To: South Sudan Youth (SSRP)
Youth can we form this party for all not individual?????/
South Sudan Youth Republican Party(SSRP)
We youth are seem to be negatively/lonely in politic, due to your duty tribalism comments will never give you any thing un else you have to come down with how can we can develop our new state than giving vague comments in website , why because you didn’t known how the politics can be readily to people in world wide and our country,try,try you will be better later man,
Youth should understand they way,we can manage our new state rather then giving vague comments here.
By:Salah Gai
hope for all and We Youth have to bring Democratic manner reform in the new state
Sala Gai
Sudan President forms taskforce to review oil production
To: South Sudan Youth (SSRP)
Youth can we form this party for all not individual?????/
South Sudan Youth Republican Party(SSRP)
We youth are seem to be negatively/lonely in politic, due to your duty tribalism comments will never give you any thing un else you have to come down with how can we can develop our new state than giving vague comments in website , why because you didn’t known how the politics can be readily to people in world wide and our country,try,try you will be better later man,
Youth should understand they way,we can manage our new state rather then giving vague comments here.
By:Salah Gai
hope for all and We Youth have to bring Democratic manner reform in the new state