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Paramilitary Seizes Key Oil Field in Sudan as Conflict Rages
The RSF's control of Heglig halts 80,000 to 100,000 barrels per day, disrupting Sudan and South Sudan's oil exports and worsening the economic crisis, officials said.
- On Monday, the Rapid Support Forces seized Sudan's largest oilfield at Heglig, shutting the processing plant, halting production, and evacuating workers to South Sudan, an engineer said.
- Heglig, Sudan's largest oilfield, serves as the main processing hub for South Sudan exports and handled 80,000 to 100,000 barrels per day, routing oil through the Greater Nile pipeline to Port Sudan.
- An RSF source reported capture of the local army division base as Sudanese Armed Forces troops and Heglig workers withdrew into South Sudan to avoid clashes and protect facilities on Sunday.
- The shutdown threatens Juba's oil income, analysts say, as South Sudan lost its two main oil-producing regions, Heglig and Block 6, CNPC warned last month and former minister Gadein Ali Obeid called a disaster.
- Since April 2023, the civil war has killed tens of thousands, displaced more than 12 million, and, as Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote, `Disturbingly, paramedics and responders came under attack as they tried to move the injured from the kindergarten to the hospital`.
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Port Sudan, Sudan. The paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (FAR) took on Monday the largest oil field in Sudan, according to several sources, in the midst of the struggle with the army for control of the resource-rich Kordofan region.Since April 2023 the African country has been immersed in a war that confronts the regular army of General Abdel Fatah al Burhan, the de facto leader of the country, the FAR, led by its former right wing, Mohame…
Sudan: RSF claims takeover of Heglig oil field in South Kordofan
The paramilitary group claimed on Monday that it had taken control of the strategically important oil field at the border with South Sudan. Heglig is also a key source of revenue for Juba, as it houses its main oil processing facility.
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