Field Processing Facility of Unity Oil Field, with the unlined ponds that separate oil from water. The field was discovered by Chevron in the 1970s, which sold its interest before a pipeline could be completed. The field did not start exporting oil until 1999, during the civil war. It is now operated by GNOPC, a consortiom dominated by the Chinese National Oil Company.
Unity Oil Field is the biggest oil producer in Southern Sudan (if the Heglig Oil Field is considered to be in Northern Sudan). The daily oil production figures listed on the wall of the Unity control room indiacted 36,000 barrels per day currently. Oil revenue from Southern Sudan is divided between north and south, but recent impartial documentation has shown that the Khartoum government has been under-reporting revenues received from southern oil fields, and Khartoum also stopped paying the required 2% of oil revenues to the government of Unity State, as required in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005.
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- ©2009 George Steinmetz
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- Contained in galleries
- South Sudan
