Post- Referendum Arrangements for Sudan's Oil Industry

Negotiations for Sudan’s future after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement started in earnest on 23 June 2010 with the signing of an MOU by the NCP and SPLM that lays down the modalities for resolving post-referendum issues and arrangements. The Southern Sudan Referendum Act stipulates that: “[…] the parties of the CPA shall enter into
negotiations aiming to achieve an agreement on post-referendum substantive issues to be witnessed by the organizations and countries signatories to the CPA […]”.

It lists two key points regarding the petroleum sector: 1) oil fields, production, transport and export of oil; and 2) contracts and environment in oil fields. The Working Group on Financial and Economic Issues & Natural Resources has been tasked with negotiating an agreement about these and related issues.

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