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Watching The World: China scolds Khartoum

08/22/2011
Eric Watkins Oil Diplomacy Editor South Sudan—now slightly more than a month old—already is having problems over oil with North Sudan. Its main trouble concerns the amount of money North Sudan wants to charge to pipe South Sudan's oil to the export terminal at Port Sudan. "The amount of money Khartoum wants us to pay is unreasonable," said David Loro Gubek, undersecretary at South Sudan's ministry of energy and mining, following reports that North Sudan asked for $32/bbl for the service. Gubek said South Sudan might examine other alternatives, including the construction of a separate oil pipeline if the North continues to insist on fees that amount to a third of the oil's export...
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