South Sudan and South Africa will sign a production sharing agreement for an untapped exploration block in the East African country, whose production has been hampered by civil war, South Sudan’s petroleum ministry said on Monday.
The Exploration Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) for Block B2 will be signed by Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, South Sudan’s Minister of Petroleum and Jeff Radebe, South Africa’s Minister of Energy, the ministry said in a statement.
The block lies in greater Jonglei State.
In April, Awow Daniel Chuang, director general for petroleum at the ministry of petroleum, said production was expected to reach around 195 000 barrels per day by the end of the year, from 175 000 at present, and rise to 220 000 barrels a day by early 2020.
The government has said production would reach pre-war levels of 350 000 to 400 000 barrels a day by mid-2020.
More than 400 000 people died in South Sudan’s civil war, which displaced around a third of the country’s 12-million people population and plunged parts of the country into famine.
Source: engineeringnews
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