South Sudanese rebels capture oilfields in Unity state: spokesperson - Article <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article55228#tabs-1> - Comments (19) <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article55228#tabs-2>
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[image: JPEG - 53.6 kb]*A worker at the power plant of an oil processing facility in South Sudan’s Unity state on 22 April 2012 (Photo: Reuters)* Rebels spokesperson said the oilfields fell under their control after defeating government troops in a three-day battle over the control of the strategic resource area. “On Friday morning our forces from Division 4 took full control of the whole Unity oilfields in the oil-producing Lich (Unity) state. This is after defeating government forces over the control of the oilfields, north of the state capital, Bentiu,” rebel leader’s spokesman, James Gatdet Dak, announced on Friday in a statement to the press. “In response to the government’s ongoing full scale offensive against our positions, all the oilfields in South Sudan are our targets with the aim to capture and shut down their operations,” he said. He accused president Salva Kiir’s government of allegedly using the oil revenues to buy more “arms and hire mercenaries” in order to perpetuate the war in defence of “tyranny” at the expense of the suffering people of South Sudan. Last year, the rebels captured Tharjiath oilfield, south of the state capital, Bentiu, and controlled some of the Unity oilfields, forcing them to temporarily shut down and reducing the oil production in the country by at least 40% from 265,000 barrels a day to 165,000 barrels per a day. Unity oilfields has 126 wells and was being operated by the Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC). Unity and Upper Nile states are the only two states in the three-year old country that produce oil. South Sudan also depends on the oil revenues from these two states by 98% of its overall budget. Situated in Rubkotni county north of Bentiu, near Pariang county, government planned to resume oil production in the area to boost its dwindling revenues and inject in more hard currency as the dollar exchange against the local South Sudanese pounds has been skyrocketing, further magnifying a near collapse of the country’s economy. Dak further said after now capturing and shutting down production operations of all the oilfields in Unity state their next targets would be Adar and Paloch oilfields in the neighboring Upper Nile state. “We have now thwarted the government’s attempt to maintain control of the Unity oilfields in order to resume oil production in the state,” he said. “Our next targets are Adar and Paloch oilfields in Upper Nile state. We will make sure the only two remaining oilfields cease to function as well.” The opposition leader’s spokesman said president Kiir’s government was not for peace, accusing it of violating ceasefire agreements in belief of “imaginary” military victory. He claimed that the defeated government troops from the oilfields were dispersed with some being pursued towards the state capital and others fleeing westwards towards Mayom near Warrap state. (ST) Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following rules. Contravention of these rules will lead to the user losing their Sudan Tribune account with immediate effect. - No inciting violence - No inappropriate or offensive language - No racism, tribalism or sectarianism - No inappropriate or derogatory remarks - No deviation from the topic of the article - No advertising, spamming or links - No incomprehensible comments Due to the unprecedented amount of racist and offensive language on the site, Sudan Tribune tries to vet all comments on the site. There is now also a limit of 400 words per comment. If you want to express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your comment as an article to [email protected] Kind regards, The Sudan Tribune editorial team. <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article55228#forum> - 5 June 19:35, by Clausewitz We have heard these threats before but I very much doubt that the rebels will actually achieve their objectives. The rebels will not be able to maintain control of the Unity oilfields [if their propaganda is to be believed] that they actually have captured them. It wasn’t too long ago that the rebels claimed to have taken partial control of the Paloich oilfields. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334821> - 5 June 19:57, by Joseph Canada Yes they did took control of Paloich oilfield and the Govt. took it back.. Dont try to lie an everyone is reading the news and some of us are actually kin in reading carefully and being practical. The Oilfield is taken. We will also hear from them if it goes back to the Govt. Dont under estimate the Power of SPLM-O. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334822> - 5 June 19:58, by Joseph Canada Yes they did took control of Paloich oilfield and the Govt. took it back.. Dont try to lie an everyone is reading the news and some of us are actually kin in reading carefully and being practical. The Oilfield is taken. We will also hear from them if it goes back to the Govt. Dont under estimate the Power of SPLM-O. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334823> - 5 June 20:05, by Clausewitz Joseph Canada: Oh really? Can you provide *evidence* for this from impartial sources? The rebels took Melut town and held it for 24 hours before being dislodged from the town. The rebels have never been anywhere near the Paloich oilfields. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334824> - 5 June 21:29, by sudani ana Clausewitz How come you changed your name from Rommel to Clausewitz? Just wondered. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334826> - 5 June 21:58, by Clausewitz sudani ana: It’s nice to hear from you, brother. I hope you’re well. You’re one of the very few people on this site that actually has a functioning brain. I didn’t change my pseudonym — I was locked out of my account and so I had to fall back on this one. I suspect that I will now be promptly shut out from this account. Damn you, sudani. Damn you for being perceptive. LOL! repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334828> - 5 June 23:02, by sudani ana Clausewitz: Thank you for your kind words, brother, and, ditto. I hope you are well and I hope you don’t get locked out. Your contributions are always insightful and make this forum more interesting. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334829> - 5 June 23:30, by Clausewitz sudani ana: The ’kind words’ have been well earned a thousand times over. You have invariably been very courteous, mature, civil and logical. I have never read an angry post from you even when you are confronted with hatred and utter stupidity. You are far more patient than I am. I get angry and strident. I really should take a leaf from your book. Thank you for your words and for your example. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334832> - 6 June 06:13, by Ayuiu Makuac Lam OK, the government will take major to regained control in few times. don’t laugh like Manchester city fan against Chelsea fan vs Arsenal fan. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334838> - 6 June 06:26, by Mi diit Rommel (Clausewitz), You are a congenital liar! And you now want to deceive Sudan ana that you were locked out. Shame on you! Nobody locked you out! You decided to willfully change your name after you were criticised for always bringing up irrelevant stupid debates under the name of Rommel. Why didn’t you complain or announce your new ’Clausewitz’ name if you were sincere? Liar!! repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334839> - 6 June 09:08, by Clausewitz Mi diit: "A congenital liar"? Where did you pick up that gem of a line from? I had no reason to change my pseudonym, I was doing splendidly with it. I can no longer use my previous pseudonym... but I’m not here to convince you. You believe in Ngundeng, so logic really isn’t your thing. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334845> - 6 June 09:20, by Clausewitz It’s clear that you consider details pertaining to the truth to be "irrelevant" and this is why you are lashing out because I make it bloody difficult for you to subject us to your lies. When you claim to be citing the UN, a regional body, a government official or an organisation of some kind... you continuously fail to provide the requested citations... repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334846> - 6 June 09:37, by Clausewitz I called you out when you claimed to have walked 37 km [Melut to Paloich] in under half an hour, and so you became angry. In essence, you presented us with a variant of the grieving process. You got angry, provided denials, begrudgingly accepted the overwhelming evidence I provided on the distance between Melut and Paloich and then you dismissed the evidence as "irrelevant", as you always do. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334847> - 6 June 09:39, by Clausewitz When I call you a liar, I am personally calling you out as an individual based on the many demonstrable instances in which you have embarrassed yourself with your penchant for lying. When you call me a liar... it is a knee-jerk reaction born out of a need for reciprocation, embarrassment, desperation and moral and intellectual bankruptcy. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334848> - 5 June 21:34, by Kim Deng The MNW and its allies are burning down Dinka Kingdom to ashes. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334827> - 6 June 05:03, by Shadrack Nuer Machut This chronic tribal Nuer rebellion won’t earn them sth good but just continuous sufferings & deaths of poor innocent Nuer as well as South Sudanese in general. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334837> - 5 June 23:24, by Kim Deng Jang (Rommel), You should recognize and appreciate what these sell-out Nuer have been doing on behalf of Dinka Kindom against their own kins in Greater Upper Nile (Nuer Empire). repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334831> - 6 June 00:05, by Ahmed Chol Kim Deng, So Dinka has a kingdom and Nuer has an empire, what is the difference? repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55228&id_forum=334833> - 6 June 00:10, by lino Ya Junubeen, The issue is not who controlling the oilfield, but what about the production of oil itself? No production means, no income for the government, no income for the employees, and then the government goes bankrupted. It is what calls Fail-State. Do you know Sudan used to take loans and borrow money to fight SPLA? Now SS is buying back through oil income! How going to buy back SS??? -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. 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