PALOICH, Sudan – run pipelines through North. Most of the oil is in the South. Which may explain why Akuoc Diing ten, five South Sudanese officials were treated to a tour by other paid 10 days, the expenses of the domestic oil industry of China this fall.
They were guided by the female interpreters, we dined on meals. "They wanted to create a new relationship with us," said Diing. "Before they were involved directly in Khartoum."
South Sudan holds people's independence on January 1, you'll see the largest country of Africa in two. By oil in the South, who have already from the northern capital of Khartoum, the capital of the South, where the Juba.
Sudan is the third-largest producer of oil of sub-Saharan Africa, behind Nigeria Angola. Sudan has 490,000 barrels per day last year, an increase of 50 percent from 2006. China's interest here is high, it has strong relationships with officials seeking of Sudan in the North and the South before the vote.
Plant Petrodar in Paloich, town center near the border of Sudan from North to South, is an array of water tanks, and money power lines at the local high-tension and Chinese that Sudanese Red and blue light to wear uniforms.
Space technology looks outside at this is what Sun top Nile State, rich oil but impoverished area where local live in mud.
41 percent of the oil company's Petrodar owner of China, the second Chinese society is the owner of 6 percent. The Government of Sudan owned by 8 percent.
Oil is a big money in South Sudan, which is the rake in 4.4 billion in oil revenue in the year 2010. This is almost 98 percent of the revenue of the region. The Government will result in only 100 million through other sources.
The oil industry that looks like a modern potential between North and South, but may also be used to tie the two together. Earlier this month, Minister for oil and protection from North and South had met in the middle of the oil production of Sudan, agreed that the joint security forces guard installations before and after January 9 people.
The fact that the oil companies satisfied Petrodar paid billions of dollars to run the export of oil in the South through the pipeline (1400-mile) almost 900 miles to exit north Sudan Red Sea Coast means that these companies will continue to have a friendly power leverage over the main source of income of the South, according to the European Coalition of oil in Sudan.
But China has acted wisely in its relations with the North and South since two ended the civil war in 2005, said a large oil expert discusses the research at the school, Director of the center of education in Africa Asia Oriental Africa in London.
The Government has in fact refashioned its bilaterial relations with Sudan "into the relationship between Beijing and Khartoum triple now Juba" so that it now has the independent if overlapping, relations with both, he said.
The Chinese Consul General in Juba, Zhiguo me, told the associated Press shared interests of kamui Juba in building two States cooperative after southern secession makes certain that the company manages Beijing close ties with the two Governments.
"We are confident in collaboration with the two sides based on equality, triumph victory," he said.
In Maple Yale and upper Nile State oil Paloich, production is not yet reached its peak. Iraqi engineers — employees Petrodar — are drilling new wells, 11. AP reporter visited the facility in Paloich Petrodar with Diing, Melut County Commissioner top local official in Sudan's most efficient oil.
Wang Jie, employee Petrodar responsible production, and Hago Bakhiel Northern Sudanese field Manager, responsible for security, highly appreciated Diing, who accompanied by more than 40 heavily armed men.
The trip included buffet lunch of rotisserie chicken, grapes and sweets Middle East Mkair flown in to the airport of the company, the top row are allowed in an area where half the population relies on food aid.
Sad scene outside the facility. Sludge thick black hole 3 kilometer long disposable (5-mile-long) full of water is processed, the byproduct of the pumping process containing cyanide arsen. Diing shook his head in disgust when passing by. A few hundred meters, support of Diing — farmers earn wearing dirty, ragged clothes — live in mud huts.
"This way need to refer to the country?" diing asked rhetorically.
Diing says he was planning to improve the lives of the people after the independence in the South. Not involve negotiating regulations, compensation with oil companies who are dealing with the Government in Khartoum during the civil war of the two-decade-plus of Sudan left by 2 million people die in the better.
Earlier in his house in the city especially without water — a power or running — vast Diing about his visit to Beijing, Shanghai, October. He showed pictures of apartment buildings built for communities was forced off their land in the province Shandong Shengli oil. Diing hopes that oil can build it to people here.
The Olympics to vote for independence of the South has seen growth diplomatic and business between China and South Sudan, opened a Consulate in Juba. In October, a delegation of Chinese Government leaders visited Juba, southern Sudanese Government Ministers and multiple were to Beijing in recent months.
If the Ministry of energy of the South ?????????, officials and local mines could win as Diing better arrangements remains looked. Professor at the University of Juba Moreau Leben said oil companies have done little to benefit rural.
' Really took the major shift in the Chinese have already made a deal, "said Moreau, specializing in corporate community relations areas of oil production. "Now the Chinese want to say ' we are here, not only for our own good, but also for your own good."
