Dateline 2013-06-28, The Star:
South Sudan expects a first oil shipment of 1 million barrels to sail from Sudan’s Port Sudan terminal on Saturday, despite a threat from Khartoum to halt cross-border flows, its oil minister said on Thursday.
A trading source told Reuters the first ships had been already loaded in Port Sudan. That oil will likely come fromChina National Petroleum Corp, which runs the oilfields with India’s ONCG Videsh and Malaysia’s Petronas in South Sudan.
Sudan notified its landlocked neighbour to the south two weeks ago it would close the two export pipelines to Port Sudan within two months unless Juba gave up its support of rebels operating across the shared border.
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 