South Sudan has asked China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) to boost crude oil production from two of its biggest fields, backtracking from an earlier plan to take over the Chinese entity’s role by 2027.
The decision follows a recent meeting in China between Nile Petroleum Corporation Limited (Nilepet) and CNPC, China’s major oil and gas corporation.
The high-level roundtable engagement in China also included other African countries, including Benin, Chad as well as other oil producing nations from Asia.
“What we are trying to tell them is, you have to be sure of 2027 because nobody is going to kick you out,” Nilepet’s Managing Director, Bernard Amour Makeny.
He added, “[And] I had to give them the confirmation and re-commitment of South Sudan in terms of safety of their staff, in terms of safety of their investment.”
Source : Sudan Tribune