1. Future Of Sudan’s Oil Sector Remains Uncertain Despite Political Progress

    ...ar al-Bashir, ending the pre-interim period agreed in January’s peace deal, and beginning the six-year interim period which is intended to end in 2011 with a referendum in the south on self-determination. On 19 July, Dr Garang dissolved the administrative structures in the south ahead of the fo...

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 31
    Published at Mon, 01 Aug 2005
  2. Gulf States Invest In Green Petroleum Products

    ...erations in Qatar. Shell’s Pearl project aims to produce 70,000 b/d of clean GTL distillates by 2009, doubling in size later, while ExxonMobil has signed a preliminary accord for a plant to produce 154,000 b/d starting in 2011. GTL “is a technology for the future,” Alex Forbes, the editor of a sp...

    Volume: 48
    Issue: 31
    Published at Mon, 01 Aug 2005