Sudan says it has over 800 mm barrels of recoverable oil so far
Sudanese Under-secretary of the Ministry of Energy and Mining, Hassan Ali el Toam, says Sudan has over 800 mm barrels
of oil.
"Sudan's recoverable reserve so far is estimated at 800 mm barrels," he said. But it is likely to be a conservative
estimate "because we are still in the beginning of the oil exploration era."
He said: "Some 85 % of the prospective areas remain unexplored and there is not sufficient data to make a full
estimate."
Sudan is currently building a 1,160 km pipeline from its Heglig and Unity oil fields to Port Sudan on the Red Sea.
Designed at a capacity of 450,000 bpd, the pipeline will pump 150,000 bpd at the initial phase beginning July, the
deadline for the final construction of the $ 600 mm project.
At the same time a $ 600 mm oil refinery is being built at el Jaili village (30 Km north of Khartoum) which will
refine a daily 50,000 of this crude for local consumption.
Exploitation of the crude is being undertaken by a consortium of firms from China, Malaysia, Canada, Britain and
Argentina.
Meanwhile, the official has disclosed that the French Total oil company has expressed willingness to resume work in its consessional areas in Bor Basin (South Sudan), which it had quit in 1983 when civil war erupted in that part of the country.
