Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLIX

No 1/2

2/9-January-2006

Sudan

Sudan Set For $8.8Bn In Oil Export Revenues In 2006, Says IMF

Sudan can look forward to oil export revenues of some $8.8bn in 2006 thanks to anticipated increases in output from the Melut basin, and high world oil prices, according to figures from the IMFs latest report Sudan: Midyear Review of the 2005 Staff-Monitored Program. The report projects the countrys oil output to increase from 312,000 b/d this year (well below the...