More than two weeks after Khartoum lifted force majeure on the larger of two pipelines pumping South Sudanese crude to export terminals on the Red Sea, crude flows are yet to resume amid intense fighting in war-torn Sudan.
Oil shipments, and with them landlocked South Sudan’s lifeblood revenue, more than halved from February last year following a “major rupture” south of Khartoum in the pipeline linking South Sudan’s ‘Dar Blend’ oilfields on Blocks 3 & 7 with Sudan’s Bashayer-2 Marine Terminal at Port Sudan on the Red Sea (see map). (CONTINUED - 1607 WORDS)
