Help us continue to fight human rights abuses. Please give now to support our work. Its owners are Talisman Energy Inc. This concession in Western Upper Nile includes the Unity and Heglig oilfields, the oldest producing oilfields in southern Sudan. Civilian displacement started in the mids.
Lundin through its subsidiary International Petroleum Corp. Petronas owned OMV of Austria owned Sudapet owns 5 percent of Block 5A, also purchased in The Block 5A concession is still in the exploratory phase, with very good results from drilling tests.
Civilian displacement began in Because of a rebel attack at their drilling facility in May , the consortium withdrew, citing "the rainy season" and "logistics" as the reasons for not continuing tests. After major displacement, continuing in , the all-weather road to the drilling site was completed in and the exploratory tests resumed, were suspended for more than a year in , and resumed again in shortly before Lundin sold off its interest. Block 5B : Petronas 41 percent and Sudapet 10 percent are the lead partners on this concession, with Lundin Oil The White Nile cuts through it.
Block 5 : also not covered in this report, the concession, by far the largest in the south at , square kilometers, is owned by the oil multinational TotalFinaElf , and encompasses Central Upper Nile and beyond.
It is not currently being developed. Block 6 : the concession northwest of block 4 in western Sudan is owned by CNPC , but oil explorations have not yet taken place and the block is not covered in this report. Chevron Oil Co. Arakis Energy Co. Talisman Energy purchased Arakis in October John Garang de Mabior Dinka.
