Sudan opens 500,000 bpd pipeline
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Friday, April 14, 2006
CAIRO — Sudan has inaugurated a major oil pipeline.
The Energy Ministry has opened a 1,400-kilometer crude oil pipeline that
links the southern Upper Nile to the Red Sea. Officials said this would
increase oil production by 500,000 barrels per day.
Khartoum now produces more than 300,000 barrels per day, Middle East Newsline reported. But the
pipeline, operated by Petrodar, would make Sudan the fifth largest oil
producer — after Algeria, Libya, Nigeria and Angola.
The oil pipeline was launched on April 10. Officials said the facility
would transport oil from the southern Melut Basin to Al Salam port on the
Red Sea.
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