Following up on my expose on PETRONAS’s involvement (okay, my cut and paste on PETRONAS’s involvement), here’s some more information. Asia Times online, dateline 2010-06-25:
Far beyond America’s Gulf Coast another oil disaster has struck, but the current damage stems from allegations of possible complicity in “war crimes and crimes against humanity”. The activities in question occurred in Sudan between 1997 and 2003, with an oil consortium led by Sweden’s Lundin Petroleum at the center of a growing storm with implications potentially impacting Asia’s oil interests.
Sweden’s coverage of the story has been dominated by questions surrounding what it means for Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, a member of Lundin’s board from 2000-2006. The possibility of Bildt, Sweden’s prime minister from 1991 to 1994, being criminally prosecuted has been widely reported.
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The ECOS report, “Unpaid Debt: The Legacy of Lundin, Petronas and OMV in Sudan, 1997-2003”, argues that “the home governments of Lundin (Sweden), Petronas (Malaysia) and OMV (Austria) have failed in their international obligations to prevent human-rights violations and international crimes”
Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 