VOL. XLVI

No 36

08-September-2003

SUDAN

CNPC Wins Contracts To Build New Sudan Pipeline, Expand Khartoum Refinery

China National Petroleum Corporation signed an agreement on 28 August to build a new 730km oil pipeline to carry oil from its Block 6 Melut Basin fields to the Khartoum refinery and a separate agreement to expand the refinery. The awards follow agreements reached between Sudan and CNPC in late 2002 (MEES, 18 November 2002). Work on the 200,000 b/d pipeline is due to start by the end of...