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Gold/Mining/Energy : Lundin Oil (LOILY, LOILB Sweden) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tomas who wrote (1243)	8/18/1999 9:50:00 AM
From: Tomas	Respond to of 2742

Here we go again: Sudan rebels threaten to stop oil production By Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 18 (Reuters) - A Sudanese rebel leader, calling foreign oil companies working in the nation "accomplices to genocide," said on Wednesday he aimed to halt the country's oil output. John Garang, head of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and its political wing, also accused Khartoum of violating a ceasefire declared this month and said at least one person died in suspected chemical weapons attacks in July. "The oilfields are legitimate targets," Garang told a news conference in Oslo at the start of a tour of Nordic states. "It is our responsibility to see that oil installations are shut down." He said Sudan was producing about 150,000 barrels per day (bpd) and aimed to raise output to 500,000 bpd in 2000. Sudan's oil production is concentrated in the Bentiu and Adar areas of southern Sudan. "Oil companies investing in Sudan are accomplices to the genocide going on in Sudan," Garang said. More than 1.5 million people have died through war and famine since 1983 in Africa's largest country when the rebels began a war for self-determination for the south and freedom from Islamic law. Garang said that China's National Petroleum Corp, Malaysia's state-owned Petronas and Canada's Talisman Energy Inc were Sudan's main foreign oil investors. In May, Austrian oil and chemicals group OMV AG also said it had made a significant oil find in southern Sudan, on a block operated by a unit of Sweden's Lundin Oil AB. "Oil would tend to strengthen the regime both economically and militarily," Garang said, adding that "oil and Allah" seemed the Islamic government's only allies. "The oil can be stopped either at source or at the terminal, and 1,610 km of pipeline is not easy to defend," he said. The oil is to be piped to a Red Sea terminal from the Bentiu area. Garang said the rebels were willing to talk to oil firms about investing, but not when revenues would benefit Khartoum. Garang accused the Sudanese armed forces of continuing attacks despite a unilateral government ceasefire declared earlier this month and due to last until October 15. "They are not sticking by the ceasefire," he said, accusing Khartoum of using the current rainy season to work on oil exports and to make "massive preparations" for an offensive in the dry season from mid-October. "There has been fighting for 33 of the last 43 years since independence. That is too much suffering for any people," he said. ... sudan.net