South Sudan’s Refineries to Bring Fuel Independence Closer
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South Sudan is set to become almost self-sufficient in oil products within a year as two refineries enter production, saving Africa’s newest nation foreign exchange it now uses to buy diesel from neighbors.
“By 2014, we would be 80 percent independent in terms of requiring energy products from any other country,” Paul Adong Deng, managing director of state-owned Nile Petroleum Corp., said in an interview on Oct. 29 in the capital, Juba. “By 2016-17, we will be entirely independent.”