Updated Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:15 am TWN, Reuters

South Sudan to build US$2 bil. oil refinery

KHARTOUM -- South Sudan's semi-autonomous government has approved plans to build a US$2 billion oil refinery, the southern energy minister said on Sunday, a step toward boosting its oil infrastructure ahead of a referendum on secession. Sudan, emerging from decades of north-south civil war, produces more than 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude from fields mostly in the landlocked south. But the refineries and pipelines are in the north, giving Khartoum control of the precious commodity.

“The government of south Sudan is planning to make a refinery (in) Akon, Warap state (which) will serve all the seven states west of the Nile,” Southern Energy Minister John Luk told Reuters in an interview.

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