Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLIX

No 1/2

2/9-January-2006

Sudan

White Nile To Start Drilling Operations In South Sudan

The UKs White Nile has said that it expects to start drilling operations in block Ba in southern Sudan early in 2006. A seismic program on the block has been undertaken by Canadas Terra Seis Geophysical (MEES, 27 June 2005). White Nile has moved its headquarters from Johannesburg to Nairobi and Terra Seis has established a camp in southern Sudan at Padak, 2km from the airstrip...