South Sudan’s Oil Minister But Kang Chol previously said oil production in his country was continuing as usual despite the fierce conflict in Sudan, where the crude is exported.
South Sudan relies on pipelines that cross Sudan to transport crude more than 1,500 km (932 miles) from its fields to tankers in the Red Sea, before exporting it to world markets.
And “Juba” has maintained production at the level of 169,141 barrels per day, with contingency plans in place to maintain it in the event of an escalation of clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces.
The oil dossier is one of the common problems between the states of Sudan and South Sudan, so the current conflict has made matters worse by threatening the security of the pipeline until the fighting finally stops.
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The government of South Sudan has confirmed that clashes in Khartoum have slowed down supply chains to the south and have “little affected” the delivery of vital equipment and materials to oilfields, and plans are underway to use safer alternative routes.
South Sudan’s economy depends on oil export revenues equivalent to 95%, at a time when observers and oil experts considered that any threat to the export of the country’s production would cause a major crisis in the country. Africa, which has nearly 11 million inhabitants.
Under the agreement between them; Juba pays Khartoum a fee for the transit of crude oil to international markets.
The future of the crisis
For his part, the CEO of the “Quorum Center for Strategic Studies” in London, Tariq Al-Rifai, clarified in exclusive statements to “Sky News Arabia”, the impact of the current crisis in Sudan on oil security in his country. southern neighbour, as well as the extent to which oil prices will be affected in the short term, saying that:
Based on the current war in Sudan, I don’t think the threat regarding the position of pipelines in South Sudan will affect oil prices in general. South Sudan is seeking to adopt contingency plans and strengthen its procedures to protect oil pipelines in South Sudan. in light of the escalation of the armed conflict, given its heavy reliance on it to market its products. The world has seen many of these scenes in Nigeria, and it has extended to the pipeline explosion and the instability of oil production, but we have not seen a direct impact on oil prices. Of course, there are bigger challenges for the oil market in general, and I don’t see what we see in Sudan as a major threat to the energy sector.
And the 2021 protests in eastern Sudan had previously disrupted exports from South Sudan.
In the face of these cascading tensions, South Sudanese officials have announced that they have purchased land in Djibouti to build a new export terminal. The country is also part of a long-awaited regional freight transport network that has started in Lamu, on the Kenyan coast.
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