South Sudan is one of the most oil-dependent countries in the world, with oil accounting for almost the totality of exports, and more than 40% of its gross domestic product (GDP). The country’s GDP per capita in 2014 was $1,111 dropping to less than $200 in 2017. Outside the oil sector, livelihoods are concentrated in low productive, unpaid ...
The oil industry in South Sudan has left a landscape pocked with hundreds of open waste pits, the water and soil contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals including mercury, manganese ...
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The biggest challenges were associated with armed groups, oil and the border. These unresolved issues led to an oil production shutdown and brief border conflict in 2012, but the two countries pulled back from the brink and, despite the start of South Sudan’s civil war, relations slowly improved. Nevertheless, the same factors continue to ...
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South Sudan’s 2011 independence directed its neighbours’ rivalry toward competition for influence over the new state. Despite this, Sudan and Uganda have shared interests in common, including unhindered South Sudanese oil production and stability under President Salva Kiir.
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Less than a year after the old “greater” Sudan split into the northern Republic of Sudan and the new Republic of South Sudan—or North and South Sudan, for clarity—the two countries were again in a state of war. Years of international efforts to bring an end to decades of conflict by helping to negotiate the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 and later efforts to ensure a smooth ...
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December 16, 201 (KHARTOUM) - A Sudanese technical team Monday travelled to South Sudan to rehabilitate facilities that have stopped production for several years following the eruption of the war ...
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It is in the best interests of political elites in both Sudan and South Sudan to ensure stability holds, as oil production across the two states is necessary to stave off economic collapse. But long histories of personal rivalries and political infighting should temper enthusiasm that these leaders will act in their best interests, let alone ...
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1470 “Total Fina Plans to Resume Oil, Gas Exploration In Sudan,” October 1, 1999. 1471 Ibid. 1472 “French investment in Sudan to increase: ambassador,” AFP, Khartoum, October 27, 1999.
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The Government of South Sudan relies on oil for the vast majority of its budget revenues, although oil production has fallen sharply since independence. South Sudan is one of the most oil-dependent countries in the world, with 98% of the government’s annual operating budget and 80% of its gross domestic product (GDP) derived from oil. Oil is ...
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2016-12-18· South Sudan is planning to increase its oil production from 130,000 to 350,000 barrels a day despite the ongoing armed conflict, Petroleum Minister Ezekiel Lul Gatkuoth said Sunday. “Prices of oil have gone up, which is good news for South Sudan,” Gatkuoth told an academic symposium in
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2025-05-29· Oil-rich South Sudan is struggling to increase production of crude several months after the end of its civil war, and the political upheaval in neighboring Sudan is in part to blame.
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2017-01-28· South Sudan aims to double its oil production to 290,000 barrels per day in fiscal year 2017/2025, the country’s finance minister said on Friday, up from current output of
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2017-01-27· South Sudan plans to more than double oil production to 290,000 barrels per day (bpd) in fiscal 2017/2025, the finance minister said on Friday, indicating a target higher than the level recorded
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2025-10-21· South Sudan’s Petroleum Minister, Ezekiel Lul Gatkuoth (photo), has announced plans to increase oil production from 130,000 to 350,000 barrels a day, in spite of the ongoing armed conflict in the country. According to him, technical measures had been put in place to reopen oil
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2025-06-01· South Sudan struggles to increase oil production after civil war, hurting recovery efforts. By SAM MEDNICK. Associated Press. JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Oil-rich South Sudan is struggling to increase production of crude several months after the end of its civil war, and the political upheaval in neighboring Sudan is in part to blame.
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“China wants to retain its substantial petroleum investment in South Sudan to take advantage of current oil production and on the assumption that better days will come,” Shinn told The
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2020-02-21· Crude oil, key to boosting South Sudan’s economy, is destroying crucial pasture land, polluting water, and increasing birth defects. Now it’s finally bad
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In May of this year, South Sudan said it would resume oil production by July after a halt of more than two years. During the civil war, the country’s production capacity fell to below 130,000
Get PriceCrude Oil Production in Sudan remained unchanged at 79 BBL/D/1K in November from 79 BBL/D/1K in October of 2025. Crude Oil Production in Sudan averaged 202.43 BBL/D/1K from 1994 until 2025, reaching an all time high of 520 BBL/D/1K in November of 2007 and a record low of 0.10 BBL/D/1K in February of 1994. This page provides the latest reported value for Sudan Crude Oil Production
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JUBA, South Sudan — Oil-rich South Sudan is struggling to increase production of crude several months after the end of its civil war, and the political upheaval in neighbouring Sudan is in part
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2020-03-03· South Sudan could now be forced to open up its books on oil revenue following that little had changed. Even before the ink has dried on South Sudan’s new transitional government of unity deal, there are allegations that Juba may have been spending oil revenue in advance against the advice and
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South Sudan plans to more than double oil production to 290,000 barrels per day (bpd) in fiscal 2017/2025, the finance minister said, indicating a target higher than the level recorded shortly before conflict erupted in late 2013.
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2017-01-15· South Sudan assumed control of three-quarters of the former country's oil fields when it gained independence from Sudan in 2011. The oil fields are the government's primary source of revenue. Oil
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2020-02-22 Crude oil, key to boosting South Sudan’s economy, is destroying crucial pasture land, polluting water, and increasing birth defects. Now it’s finally bad enough for the government
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Sudan and South Sudan on Wednesday agreed to work towards increasing the oil production and boosting trade cooperation between the two countries, officials said. The comes after economic talks between South Sudan’s oil minister Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth and Sudan’s oil minister Abdel-Rahman Osman in Khartoum on Wednesday.
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2012-04-14· South Sudan said today it had repulsed an attempt by the Sudanese army to retake the disputed oil-producing border area of Heglig, which the southern army seized earlier this week.
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2017-01-27· By Katharine Houreld. JUBA (Reuters) South Sudan plans to more than double oil production to 290,000 barrels per day (bpd) in fiscal 2017/2025, the finance minister said on Friday, indicating a target higher than the level recorded shortly before conflict erupted in late 2013.
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South Sudan has restarted production at some of its previously shut-in fields in the Toma South and Unity fields in September 2025 and January 2025, providing a marginal increase to its total
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In a number of cases, international oil companies in Sudan have denied that any abuses were taking place in connection with oil exploration and production. Despite considerable evidence to the
Get Price2012-05-10· * A brewing war between Sudan and South Sudan: On April 10th, forces from the newly independent state of South Sudan occupied the oil center of Heglig, a town granted to Sudan
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The Government of South Sudan relies on oil for the vast majority of its budget revenues, although oil production has fallen sharply since independence. South Sudan is one of the most oil-dependent countries in the world, with 98% of the government’s annual operating budget and 80% of its gross domestic product (GDP) derived from oil. Oil is
Get Price2011-10-09· Sudan said on Sunday it expects its mining industry to produce around 7 tonnes of gold in 2011 and it plans to launch a gold refinery next year to improve the quality of its much extensive larger
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Before the crisis, South Sudan was already the scene of one of the world’s largest humanitarian operations responding to structural food insecurity, large refugee populations, intra-tribal violence, floods, drought and austerity caused by the halt in oil production in 2013.. Despite this, progress was being made and resilience-building and development were becoming the main focus of the
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2025-08-27· South Sudan authorities plan to send a team of environmental experts to assess the scale of damage caused by pollution in oil-producing areas. The environmental audit will begin in two weeks, Petroleum Minister Daniel Awow told reporters in the capital Juba
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Conflict in South Sudan and the Challenges Ahead Congressional Research Service 1 Background South Sudan emerged in 2011 as the world’s newest country, and one of its least developed. After almost 40 years of war between the Sudan government and southern insurgents, southern Sudanese voted in a January 2011 referendum to secede from Sudan
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SOUTH SUDAN AVOID ALL TRAVEL. Avoid all travel to to South Sudan, due to armed conflicts, inter-ethnic violence and high levels of violent crime.. If you choose to remain in the country despite this advisory, restrict your movements and keep abreast of the latest developments.
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Fighting in oil-producing areas, coupled with a disastrous decision to suspend oil production in 2012, had significantly decreased oil output. This left Upper Nile home to the few remaining active wells and a fragile life-line to a cash-strapped government struggling with the costs of war and corruption. The area has therefore often been a strategic target for opposition fighters hoping to
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Correction: South Sudan-Oil Production story Special Bulletin Review: Securing our Citizens while Modernizing
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Why is Omar al-Bashir mediating South Sudan peace talks? A peace deal in South Sudan will benefit the Sudanese president in more than one way.
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