SUDAN

White Nile Petroleum Company Liquidated 

The Sudanese Minister of Energy and Mines, Mr. Adam Mousa Madibu, announced in Khartoum on 8 September that the joint-venture firm, the White Nile Petroleum Company (WNPC) - which was set up in 1981 to construct and manage an export pipeline system linking Chevron's oilfields in south Sudan to an export terminal on the Red Sea - has been liquidated and that all contracts awarded by WNPC to Italy's Snam Progetti in 1983 (valued at...