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Article: SUDAN - The Oil Sector.
- Article from:
- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- October 29, 2007
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Sudan's oil production was only able to reach significant levels after completion of the first crude oil export pipeline from central Sudan to the Red Sea coast in 1999. Exploration began in the mid-1970s, and Chevron drilled several successful wells in the Abyei area in the early 1980s, beginning with Taiyib-1 in 1981. Chevron pulled out in 1984, after an attack on its installations by the SPLA, and Sudan did not have the technical or financial resources to develop its own resources.
Serious investment began in the mid-1990s, including in Abyei. In 1996, Canadian independent Arakis Energy began developing the Heglig, Unity, and surrounding oilfields - in Blocks ...