جنوب السودان ماض فى تشييد خط انابيب بديل

Quote: By Misuk Moses Mule JUBA, 14 March 2013 [Gurtong]- The minister argued that the Sudanese oil pipeline can only accommodate 3,500 barrels per day per day. He said the move will help in future expansion. “Additional pipeline will be built. The Sudanese pipeline takes up to 35,000 barrels of oil per day,” he explained. The minister further said that plans to expand will only be boost by an additional pipeline. The South Sudanese minister of water and irrigation, Paul Mayom Akec who is also one of the members of the negotiating team has said that the matter of whether South Sudan will construct a pipeline or not is a domestic is but confirmed that government is on the move to construct a pipeline. Should South Sudan construct its own pipeline, this will reduce its burden of renting. South Sudan has agreed to pay United States dollars $6.5 and 8.4 dollars per barrel for renting the Western pipeline. This money excludes the transit fees which is $1 per barrel. Last year the government of South Sudan planned to construct an alternative oil pipeline through Lamu, Kenya and another through Ethiopia and Djibouti. The Lamu project is set to cost about United States $5-6 billion dollars. South Sudan recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Ethiopia and Djibouti which includes a possibility of building an oil pipeline. The government announced that it will resume pumping oil through Sudan in three weeks time following an agreement reached Tuesday morning on the matrix that guarantees implementation of the nine cooperation agreements signed last year. The Minister for Petroleum Stephen Dhieu Dau explained that the oil resumption would start in three weeks maximum if the technical part of the oil production delay otherwise he said ten days are adequate to start pumping oil through Sudan. He also affirmed that the oil will reach Port Sudan on the way to international market in 28 days. With the matrix signed it will become easier for the African Union to follow and oversee the implementation of the nine agreements. It will also set a way forward for some of the contentious issues like the four economic agreements of trade, external debts, oil and pensions. Posted in: Home, Business, Foreign Relations, Governance

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