South Sudan offers 14 oil blocks to increase output

Oil facilities in Paloch Town in Upper Nile State, South Sudan.  FILE PHOTO | AFP

South Sudan is putting up 14 oil blocks for sale in a bid to increase production to pre-war levels of 350,000 barrels a day.

Chol Deng Thon Abel, the Managing Director of state-owned oil consortium, the Nile Petroleum Corporation Limited (Nilepet), told journalists in the capital Juba on Wednesday that interest in its nascent petroleum industry has been growing.