by rockdoc123 » Sun 02 Dec 2012, 18:22:01
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')outh Sudan is landlocked and so far as I can tell the only export option is tanker truck over horrible roads. Do they export much at all in the future, that is unless they are 'liberated' by someone else...
the oil is transported by pipeline north where some of it is used at the Khartoum refinery that the Chinese built and then is shipped via a 1500 km pipeline (again built by the Chinese) which ends up at Port Sudan on the Red Sea where it is loaded onto tankers. The pipeline isn't at capacity as yet and there is room for more pumping stations if necessary. One of the early issues was the waxy nature of the crude but that was solved by flash heating and addition of pour point depressant chemicals.
The consortium that produces that vast majority of the oil is comprised of the Chinese (CNOOC), Malays (Petronas), Indians (ONGC) and the Sudanese (Sudapet).