South Sudan unveils strategic plan to protect oil fields
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April 24, 2017 (JUBA) - South Sudan government has unveiled a
strategic plan to protect its oilfield in order to curb sabotage and
allay fears of kidnapping by the armed opposition of foreign workers.
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Soldiers from the South Sudanese army (SPLA) guard an oil facility (AFP)
The presidential advisor on security affairs, Tut Kew Gatluak told
reporters that the general security situation in the young nation was
“under control except few isolated incidents carried out by bandits”.
“The general security situation in the country is under control except
that we’ve observed that some negative forces are bent on sabotaging
the activities of the oil production companies,” Gatluak said Monday.
“But the government, through the ministry of petroleum has taken extra
steps to ensure that we guard these facilities, including the
pipelines, oil platforms and other installations,” he added.
According to the senior South Sudanese official, a large task force
that can contain any aggression has already been taken.
“There are enough troops and other security agencies that can face the
challenge of the times”, he further told Sudan Tribune.
Cabinet, Gatluak said, has approved a new strategy to improve the
security situation around the oil fields to build the confidence of
workers.
“The arrangement now is that the deployment to protect oil fields will
be in three layers. The first layer will be covered by the army. The
SPLA forces will be deployed in the layer, followed by security and
then the police as the third layer in the protection of the oil
field,” said the presidential aide.
He added, “This arrangement was discussed at the national security
council and also at the council of ministers where the strategy was
approved”.
The move to protect key installations follows complaints in March by
oil companies that they were operating in places extremely at risk of
attacks and kidnapping by hostile armed dissidents in the region. The
complaints drew the attention of the petroleum ministry and the
council of ministers passed a resolution authorising the urgent
deployment of troops with their capabilities to oil-rich Unity and
Upper Nile regions.
The undersecretary in the country’s petroleum ministry acknowledged
that production was facing challenges, but said everything was being
done to ensure production level is increased.
“We are faced with the devil on all fronts,” said Mohamed Lino.
“Prices are awfully low, our efforts to increase oil production have
been frustrated by attacks and kidnappings by armed groups operating
in the area and we finding it difficult to persuade oil workers to go
to some places. This is becoming a concern and the government is
exerting efforts to address this challenge,” he added.
Since its independence in July 2011, South Sudan has relied on oil for
all incomes, a situation that has significantly compounded ongoing
political and economic instability due to the fall in crude oil
prices.
According to South Sudanese officials, production in the past reached
as high as 350,000 BPD (barrels per day) but fell after a dispute with
Sudan over fees for pumping South Sudan’s crude through Sudan’s export
pipeline, which led South Sudan to halt oil production in 2012.
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25 April 01:40, by Kuch
SUDAN TRIBUNE will never tires itself out with it cheap propaganda
about South Sudan it seems. The idiots who edited this foreign tabloid
crap do not know that we know the creeps who put out these cheap
propaganda: Foreign spies, mainly to sell out their propaganda to
influence the citizenry of a country that the corporate America,
Europe and some their other creeps in between would want their>>>
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25 April 01:49, by Kuch
regimes change and be replaced with their puppets that would
be malleable to Washington, Wall Street, London, Paris, Brussels et
al. And in this case, the corporate America, Europe, their UN, their
sleazy NGOs and their allies have made it abundantly clear that they
want a regime change in our country simply because they are
desperately salivating for our oil fields and to counter China
influence>
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25 April 01:55, by Kuch
But Corporate America, Europe and their allies are wasting
their times and our time. The US, right after our independence in
2011, the US companies were given the first priority to come and
invest in our country. But the US companies refused to come and invest
in country citing lack of infrastructures to invest in. But when the
government of South Sudan asked the Chinese companies to come>>>
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25 April 02:08, by Kuch
and invest in our country and the Chinese companies
agreed to come and invest in South Sudan, the US went berserk and
wanted a regime change and be replaced their their Riek Machar puppet
or Pagan Amuom. To cut the story short though, the US has lost it here
in South Sudan. South Sudanese people are very revengeful and we are
not going to let the US, the UK, France and their allies usual
business>
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25 April 02:17, by Kuch
of regime change of other countries governments
and be replaced with fools who are answerable to corporate America,
Europe and their banking cartels isn’t going to fly here in South
Sudan as far as we are concerned. Yes, we know the US, the UK, the UN,
their creepy NGOs and their allies will try everything at their
disposal to be welcomed into our country to come and loot it like they
are>>>
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25 April 02:36, by Kuch
currently doing in Iraq, Libya or CAR. The US,
the UK, the UN and their NGOs have made themselves the main
oppositions in our country and they using their usual massive crude
propaganda trying to influence the narrative of what is going on in
South Sudan. But the US and her allies have misread the South Sudanese
people. The US, the UK, the UN and their creepy NGOs and their spies
think, we are>>>
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25 April 02:46, by Kuch
not aware of their dirty game in our
country. But they are playing games. The fools think, they can used
their damn UN, humanitarian aid, donation, peacekeeping and their
so-called human rights business bullshits. Do the criminals think they
know the rights of our people than us? Even during our war with the
North Sudan, the SPLA released over 6,000 POWs in 2005 and So why do
these creepy
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25 April 02:53, by Kuch
Americans and European criminals think
they know the value of our people than own ourselves? It is simply
being arrogant. Fellows, watch this space. By the way, SUDAN TRIBUNE
propagandists, this is what the CIA, MI6 and other creepy agencies
have been doing around the
world:http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-02-28/newly-declassified-documents-show-senior-cia-agent-and-deputy-director-directorate-i
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25 April 03:02, by Kuch
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/10/leading-german-journalist-admits-cia-bribed-leaders-western-press.html
Many foreign agents have used this
tactic to fool some lowly informed South Sudanese journalists to write
craps on behave of the US and allies interests. And your SUDAN
TRIBUNE, RADIO TAMAZUJ and many corporate America and European media
propaganda machines are pretty good at these dirty>>
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25 April 03:17, by Kuch
intrigues to change the
perceptions of the citizenry of a country that the Western countries
want their governments changed to their interests. Here is a view of
what journalism we do need in our country and indeed in our own Africa
by a typical well trained South Sudanese
journalist:http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/20321/Default.aspx
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25 April 03:23, by Kuch
http://www.gurtong.net/ECM/Editorial/tabid/124/ID/20350/Default.aspx
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25 April 06:25, by Eastern
.....Again, the Bul Nuer will serve as the firewood to "achieve"
this end......Sad!
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