Rhino: Agencies – Former Sudanese Minister of Energy and Oil, Mohamed Abdallah, said in press statements on Tuesday that the resumption of pumping South Sudanese oil to export ports across Sudan requires “understandings” between the Port Sudan government and the Rapid Support Forces, in light of the latter’s control over the pumping station in El-Elafoon.
The Port Sudan government officially announced the resumption of pumping South Sudanese oil on Tuesday, and the Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Muhyiddin al-Naim, said that Sudan and South Sudan reached an agreement to resume pumping South Sudanese oil, after a seven-month halt, due to technical and security issues.
In a statement to Radio Tamazuj, Al-Naim explained that the meetings between the two sides, chaired by South Sudan’s Deputy Minister of Oil, Shaul Deng Ton, resulted in an agreement to resume pumping and operate the pipeline, without explaining how to do so. He emphasized that the stoppage had negatively affected the peoples of both countries.
For his part, the advisor to the RSF commander, Al-Basha Tabiq, said that the citizens of Heglig are living in very critical humanitarian conditions, after the social responsibility clauses that were contributing to their support were stopped. He added: “The Heglig field produces 22,000 barrels per day, which are invested in buying weapons, warplanes and drones to hit local communities.
“We will hold the Port Sudan gang accountable for any barrel of oil exported and the rental value of the oil pipelines from April 15, 2023, until the moment the oil pipelines were closed, after consultation with the government of South Sudan,” Tabiq added in a tweet on his account on the ‘X’ platform on Tuesday.