Sudan

White Nile Petroleum Operating Co. has discovered large volumes of dry gas in Sudan's Block 8, southeast of Khartoum, press reports said.

June 1, 2009

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, June 1 -- White Nile Petroleum Operating Co. has discovered large volumes of dry gas in Sudan's Block 8, southeast of Khartoum, press reports said.

WNPOC is a 50-50 combine of Sudan National Petroleum Corp. and Malaysia's Petronas, which said the finds came at the Hosan and Tawakul wells. They estimated the potential at 16-20 tcf but said the finds are not yet proven to be commercial.

The country's only other gas discovery came in 2005 by a joint venture of China National Petroleum Corp. and Sudapet in Block 6 in the Heglig area of southwestern Sudan. It is to be used to supply a 400 Mw power plant.