Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 28 -- Sudanese government officials signed a contract with the Sudanese White Nile Petroleum Co. authorizing development of Thar Jath oil field on Block 5A (see map, OGJ, Oct. 27, 2003, p. 46).
Sudanese White Nile Petroleum plans to drill 45 wells, aiming for initial production of 80,000 b/d.
Sudan's Minister of Energy and Mining Awad Ahmad al-Jaz said Thar Jath development includes a 176-km pipeline to an existing 1,504-km crude oil pipeline from the Unity-Heglig group of fields to Port Sudan on the Red Sea (see map, OGJ, Dec. 7, 1992, p. 46).
Sudanese White Nile Petroleum is a consortium of Malaysian state oil firm Petronas 68%, India's state-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp. 24%, and Sudan's state oil company Sudapet 7%.
