South Sudan oil continues to flow despite Sudan protests – Makuei

JUBA – South Sudan’s information minister and government spokesman Michael Makuei Lueth has said that protests in Sudan have not affected flow of South Sudan’s oil to Port Sudan.

Thousands of protesters remain on the streets of Sudan after the country’s armed forces launched a military coup on Monday.

The coup leader Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan on Monday dissolved civilian rule, arrested political leaders, and declared a state of emergency.

South Sudanese minister of information, Makuei said the flow of oil from the fields to Port Sudan is normal amid the military takeover of power in Sudan on Monday.

“The oil is not affected, the oil is flowing. Don’t say but I said the oil is flowing,” Makuei told a local media outline in Juba, the Dawn Newspaper on Thursday.

Experts warned that combined exports of 13,000 barrels of oil a day from both Sudan and South Sudan are at risk if the protest persists in Sudan.

The oil-rich South Sudan which is producing about 156,000 daily exports its crude oil through a pipeline to Sudan’s Red Sea Cast to the international market.

The East African youngest nation relies on neighboring Sudan’s infrastructure to transport its crude for export since her independence from Sudan in 2011.