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Sudan to offer 27 blocks to investors

SUDAN SUDAN’S Ministry of Energy and Mining has that hosted their oilfields. Aliu argued that these
announced plans to offer more than two dozen firms should agree to “provide social services
new blocks to investors in the near future. such as water, education and health projects, [to]
Speaking to the Sky News Arabia TV chan- construct roads to connect towns and villages
nel, acting Energy and Mining Minister Kheiri and [to] address electricity problems,” Radio
Abdelrahman said on November 13 that Khar- Dabanga reported last week.
toum hoped to attract bids for 24 onshore
blocks, as well as three offshore licence areas. He Private gasoline imports
did not identify any of the blocks in question, In related news, Sudan recently took delivery of
or say when Sudanese authorities would begin a small gasoline cargo, the first to be imported
accepting offers for them. into the country by a privately owned company.
Abdelrahman went on to say that the Min- Abdelrahman told reporters earlier this
istry of Energy and Mining hoped to attract the month that the first cargo, consisting of 36,000
attention of international investors with access tonnes of gasoline, had been unloaded in Port
to up-to-date technologies. Khartoum hopes to Sudan. Additionally, he noted that another cargo
find investors that can use technology to maxim- of the same size was waiting to dock in the port.
ise yields from all 27 of the blocks, he explained. Sudan has experienced widespread fuel
He was speaking one day after he paid a visit shortages this year and has had to import petro-
to East Darfur State to discuss investment in leum products to meet demand. The govern-
the oil sector. During that visit, Mohamed Aliu, ment is trying to alleviate those shortages by
the governor of the state, told him that local arranging for the distribution of supplies in key
authorities wanted to see upstream operators sectors of the economy, including but not lim-
make more investments in the communities ited to agriculture and power generation. ™

PERFORMANCE
NLNG set to increase domestic

LPG supplies by 28.6% in 2021

NIGERIA THE Nigeria LNG (NLNG) consortium is gear- increase NLNG’s contribution to 450,000 tonnes
ing up to increase the volume of LPG reserved from next year. That is a very positive contribu-
for domestic consumption by more than a quar- tion from NLNG.”
ter next year. He also stated that the consortium was tak-
Tony Attah, NLNG’s managing director, ing this step in line with the federal government’s
said last week that the group hoped to bring the efforts to promote the use of LPG on the domes-
amount of LPG allocated to the domestic mar- tic market. Abuja sees LPG as a safer and cleaner
ket up to 450,000 tonnes in 2021. This year, he cooking fuel, he commented.
noted, NLNG is slated to deliver about 350,000
tonnes per year (tpy) of LPG to Nigerian con-
sumers, equivalent to 35% of total domestic
supplies.
As a result, the higher number would repre-
sent a rise of nearly 28.6% on present levels.
Attah, who was speaking at a webinar organ-
ised by the Oil and Gas Group of the Nigeri-
an-British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC),
pointed out that this increase was in line with
long-term trends.
“In 2007, the total consumption of LPG
in Nigeria was about 50,000 tonnes,” he said.
“Today, it is about 1mn million [tpy] and
NLNG’s contribution is 350,000 [tpy]. We
have approached our board to get a mandate to NLNG covers 35% of current LPG consumption in Nigeria (Image: File)

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