Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 26

27-June-2005

Sudan

Fighting In Northeast Sudan Unlikely To Affect Oil Production

Fighting erupted on 19 June around Tokar in northeast Sudan, some 120km south of Port Sudan, the countrys main oil export terminal. But the impact of the hostilities on oil output is likely to be limited, Josh Mandel, Sudan analyst at Control Risks Group in London told MEES, due to the high level of security around production facilities. But the export pipeline from the...