Sudan oil pipeline ruptured during fighting in February has been repaired and could resume operation
A in the next two weeks, a South Sudan oil ministry official said on Tuesday.
Sudanese sources aligned with the army blamed its rival Rapid Support Forces for the stoppage, saying the pipeline’s damaged pump station was in RSF-controlled territory. The RSF denied the claims. “The rupture has been restored, has been repaired, but now it has caused some gelling along the pipeline,” said William Anyak Deng, an undersecretary in South Sudan’s oil ministry.
The Petrodar pipeline, one of two in Sudan, carries about two thirds of South Sudan’s total oil exports.
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