SUDAN - Controversy - E&P Background.

APS Review Downstream Trends, October, 2007

Exploration and development of Sudan's oil resources has been controversial. International human rights organisations have accused the Sudanese government of financing human rights abuses with oil revenues, including the mass displacement of civilians near the oilfields. Factional fighting in the south and rebel attacks on oil infrastructure have kept oil production and exploration from reaching full potential to date.

In October 2004, for example, the Khartoum government prevented a militia attempt to sabotage the country's main crude oil export pipeline. However, the January 2005 CPA between and the GoSS was signed to end the North-South conflict. Now the danger of this conflict being revived is serious and is made more complicated by the Darfur war, in...

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