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Friday, October 9, 2020
South Sudan has made a number of moves in recent weeks aimed at ramping up production that have drastically declined from pre-war levels. Most recently Minister of Petroleum Awow Daniel Chuang said the country has plans to offer 14 new oil blocks for exploration during its upcoming licensing round.
Chuang said that oil production in the Dar block alone had dropped from 130,000 barrels a day to the current 115,000 bpd.
“The challenge that we are facing in oil production is actually related to geological challenges because of the oil fields, we are producing more water than oil. We want to go the technical way to get the right technologies that we can deploy for us to track more oil,” Chuang said, according to a Xinhua report.
Last week, Chuang told Argus that South Sudan would like to renegotiate its Opec+ crude production quota because fields at some blocks had resumed operations since it joined the group.
Further, in a September 28 statement, Sudan’s Ministry of Energy and Minerals said that Sudan and South Sudan had agreed to draft a deal to develop oil cooperation, which includes resuming production from key oil fields. Under the agreement, production at the Unity and Toma South fields will be prioritized, with 15,000 bpd from Block 5A expected to come online in the near term.
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