Difficult resumption for South Sudan oil exports

South Sudan energy minister Stephen Dhieu Dau was due to hold an official ceremony on 27 April to mark the first oil flows from Unity State into a pipeline to Sudan operated by Greater Pioneer Operating Company (GPOC). The flow of oil from Upper Nile State into the second export pipeline to Sudan, operated by Dar Petroleum Operating Company (DPOC), was due to begin on 30 April. Though the Ministry of Oil in Khartoum reported the arrival of a small test shipment from the South in early April, the full-scale resumption of both pipelines has been delayed and no new date has been set for either, according to sources in Juba.