عاجل : جوبا تقرر أيقاف إنتاج النفط

Quote: January 20, 2012 (JUBA) – The government of the Republic of South Sudan has decided to shut down all its oil production throughout the country in response to the action by Khartoum which confiscated the oil as it flows through North Sudan pipelines. A Southern Sudanese soldier (R) stands next to crude oil reservoir tanks while a foreign Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company (NPOC) oil worker walks by at a field processing facility in Unity State on November 10, 2010. (Getty)The resolution was passed today in the Council of Ministers meeting chaired by President Salva Kiir Mayardit. The minister of Petroleum and Mining, Stephen Dhiew, was directed by the Council to immediately workout the technicalities of shutting down the oil operations. South Sudan said it has already lost hundreds of millions of dollars as Khartoum took over 3 million barrels of oil that passed through the pipeline to Port Sudan. Khartoum claimed that it confiscated the oil because of unpaid fees. However, Juba denied the claim as baseless, saying it has been paying all the fees since independence as verified by the international oil companies operating in South Sudan and therefore it was an act of aggression by the later to loot the property of an independent nation. Officials say the process of completely shutting down all the oil wells may take a week and no single barrel will be produced. The government of South Sudan has already notified the oil companies about the decision to shut down the oil operations in the country. Meanwhile South Sudan will look for alternative routes of pipelines to other neighboring countries and refineries unless Khartoum will reach a future agreement with South Sudan. Oil constitutes 98% of revenues in South Sudan, but officials say it is better keep it under the ground for sometimes instead of letting it be robbed by Khartoum. It is not clear what reaction will come from Khartoum on this serious new development

Quote: وعمال التفريغ والشحن وادارة الخط يشتغلوا بالدين ؟

Quote: أتمنى ان يكون الخبر صحيح لنرى كيف سوف يعيش الانقاذيين اللصوص.

Quote: اتمني ان لا يكون الخبر صحيحا ! لانهم في النهاية سوف يعيشون علينا نحن الشعب ! و اذا كان الخبر صحيحا اتمني ان لا ترتكب الحكومة المزيد من الحماقات لكي لا تضطر حكومة الجنوب للجوء الي مثل هذه القرارات -- لا اري انه اذا كان المطلب هو خروج الناس الي الشوارع ان نتمني او نتوسل الي الغلاء -! هناك ما يكفي من الغلاء و هناك ما يكفي من الشوارع !

Quote: ما هذا الإستنتاج الفطير ؟؟ .. !!!!!!!!

Quote: ألا تري أنه من الحقارة إنّو الجنوب عاوز يستخدم آليات الإستفادة من النفط - أنابيب وموانئ وضخ - ببلاش؟؟ !! .. كمان حقو نكون حقانيين شوية ياخ ..

Quote: طبعا اذا النفوس اتطايبت وناس باقان ونافع وصقور الجانبين زحو بعيد وخلو الشعبين يشوفو مصالحهم بعيدا عن الحركات

Quote: لو أنك أثبتت هذه المعادله الرياضيه لارتحت : المؤتمر الوطني = الحركه الشعبيه

Quote: South Sudan was born as an independent nation on July 9, 2011, with good will and a bounty. Three hundred and fifty thousand barrels of oil per day provided the government with $1,000 per year for each of its 8 million citizens. But the only pipeline to market runs through northern Sudan, giving the government in Khartoum control over South Sudan’s economic artery. And on independence day there was no agreement on the terms of pipeline use. When Sudan was still one country, 50 percent of the revenue from southern oil went to the central treasury, comprising 40 percent of its budget. After July 9, Khartoum received nothing — not even a transit fee. International promises of debt relief and lifting economic sanctions, to fill a part of the budget gap, came to nothing. Continued negotiations — convened by the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan, which is headed by former President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and to which I am an adviser — have failed to resolve the issue. On Jan. 20, South Sudan announced the dramatic step of shutting down oil production, with immediate effect. As oil money comprises 97 percent of the South’s budget, it seems a suicidal step. The rationale is that for the last month, Khartoum has been diverting the oil to its own refinery and filling three tankers. A year ago, President Omar al-Bashir congratulated his southern counterpart, President Salva Kiir, on independence and promised a new and peaceable chapter in the troubled history of north-south relations. This quickly turned sour, particularly with the outbreak of war in two areas of northern Sudan — Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile — where about half of the population is loyal to the former rebels of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, who are now the government in the South. Although the northern branch of the party supposedly split off, the South does not disguise its solidarity with its former comrades in arms. Khartoum’s delegates to the just-concluding talks in Addis Ababa complain bitterly. “Why should we allow Southern oil to go free to market, when the money from its sales is used to arm rebels who want to destroy us?” They follow it up with a promise — we will reconcile our respective claims after we agree on a transit fee that matches a third of the budget gap. The South counters, “Why do we allow our oil to be stolen and the money used to buy weapons to kill our comrades in arms? Khartoum has always wanted to control the South and its readiness to strangle us financially shows that they will never allow us to be truly free.” The Southern government in Juba has floated plans for a new pipeline through Kenya. Optimistically, this may cost $3 billion to $4 billion and take three years to build, but many Southern leaders would rather leave their oil in the ground than submit to Sudan’s coercion. So South Sudan has set off its economic doomsday machine. The shutdown of wells is already beginning and within a week the oil companies will begin flushing the pipeline with water, so that the oil it contains doesn’t jam and turn into a 600-mile asphalt tube. After that, the best case would be six months’ work to reopen exports. The South’s lead negotiator, Pagan Amum, said he was at peace with himself when he explained: “This is a matter of respect. We may be poor but we will be free.” But South Sudan is a fragile state, as the recent interethnic killings in the Jonglei area show, and it will need massive foreign aid to compensate for the lost $650 million per month. A northern general remarked, “The shutdown will hurt us but it will kill them.” But Sudan cannot be stable if its southern neighbor is in crisis. Based on its principle that Sudan and South Sudan should be two viable states, at peace and mutually supportive, the African Union panel has proposed an agreement. This will keep the oil flowing, stop the unilateral diversion of southern oil by the north, and provide enough funds to cushion the economic crisis in the north. China — the main buyer of Sudanese oil — the United States and the United Nations have endorsed the African Union’s plan. President Bashir and President Kiir are due to meet in Addis Ababa on Friday. This is the last chance, not only for the two to snatch a deal on oil, but also to stop an escalation into a wider north-south war. The two must step back from the brink. Alex de Waal is the executive director of the World Peace Foundation

Quote: وقال محللون ان خط أنابيب كينيا سيكون من الصعب بناء عبر التضاريس الوعرة التي ضربها العنف القبلية وقطاع الطرق تمر أيضا من خلال المناطق المنكوبة في غرب كينيا. جنوب السودان وقال انه سيكلف نحو 1.5 مليار دولار ، لكن محللين يقولون ان أقساط التأمين الضخمة يجب أن يضاف بسبب مخاوف أمنية. ويمكن لتوقعات تراجع الامدادات من حقول overpumped تعقيد الحجة لهذا المشروع. "سيكون من الصعب حقا" ، وقالت دانا ويلكينز في الشاهد العالمي. واضاف "اننا نبحث ما لا يقل عن سنة أو سنتين بسبب طول خط الانابيب ، والتضاريس لها لتغطية والمخاوف الامنية في المنطقة". وقالوا ان الطريق من القطع 3 و 7 في ولاية أعالي النيل التي تديرها مجموعة من الشركات الصينية والماليزية أساسا التي تنتج 250000 برميل يوميا ما يعني خط الانابيب نحو 500 كيلومتر الى جوبا من حيث تشغيل خط آخر 1260 كلم يمكن ان تذهب الى لامو. وقال ويلكينز المشروع يحتاج أيضا إلى بناء اثنين من المرافق المعالجة المركزية للحقول في الوحدة وأعالي النيل منذ تلك الموجودة في السودان. وشكك خبراء النفط الجدوى الاقتصادية لإنشاء خط أنابيب في المدى المتوسط حيث من المتوقع أن ينخفض الانتاج بشكل حاد في السنوات المقبلة بسبب overpumped بعض الحقول من الخرطوم في اطار التحضير للاستقلال ، في جنوب السودان. وتراجع انتاج جنوب السودان إلى 200،000 برميل يوميا بحلول عام 2016 ، إلى 160000 بحلول عام 2018 وكذلك بعد ذلك ، وفقا لتقديرات الائتلاف الأوروبي بشأن النفط في السودان ، والتي تتألف من مجموعات البحوث ، والمنظمات غير الحكومية والناشطين.