Oil companies avoided a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attack on the Balila oil field and airport in West Kordofan on Monday morning. On Sunday evening, they evacuated all crews from the field to the state capital of El Fula, 50 kilometres from Balila.
The workers received orders to evacuate the field on Saturday evening, but attempts by the administration to persuade the RSF to stop the attack delayed their evacuation until Sunday evening.
An oil engineer explained that they left the oil field after closing the productive wells, pumps, and insulators, under the supervision of the oil company's administration and native administration leaders.The Sudanese Oil Workers Association confirmed that an RSF unit launched its attack on Monday morning, resulting in the occupation of Balila airport and parts of the field belonging to Petro-Energy.
A technical and security plan was developed on Saturday to close the Balila field and evacuate workers to a safe place after information circulated that"forces affiliated with the RSF" intended to carry out an attack on the Balila oil field. The amount of oil in Balila oilfield's reservoirs is estimated at more than 1,300 million barrels. The production of the Balila field previously reached more than 70,000 barrels per day, which has decreased slightly due to the outbreak of war in Sudan.
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