Attacks on oil infrastructure in #Sudan, lack of maintenance and wider collapse of governance from the war is hampering oil export from #SouthSudan, risking instability from loss of revenue from natural resources. And comes with environmental risks: 🧵1/ x
aljazeera.com
aljazeera.com
Recent problems with oil production was linked with both spills of the South-Sudan --> Port Sudan pipeline and other conflict-related struggles forcing Sudan to call for a 'force majure', basically halting oil transport through its network. 2/x x.com
#SouthSudan's political elite depend on oil revenues to stay in power, while at the same time oil fields need to keep pressure on the pumping, yet the country has limited storage facilities, and weak environmental controls 3/x apnews.com oversight
Meanwhile, the seasonal flooding is getting worse in the Upper Nile and Unity State, impacting oil fields that are exporting through #Sudan posing additional environmental problems as documented by @PAXforpeace in 2023 4/x paxforpeace.nl
There are currently plans to build open-air reservoirs to store the crude oil as #SouthSudan is lacking storage capacity. This is a huge enormous environmental risk from flooding and known weak controls and capacity. These spill-over effects of the #Sudan war will hit hard END
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