2005

International oil companies and Khartoum have a long record of turning oil into war.

In the rush for Sudanese oil, Asian companies appear to have got a head start.

Experts predict that oil and gas companies will rush in to expand Sudan's oil production from the 345,000 barrels a day recorded in June 2004.

The Railway Minister, Mian Shamim Hyder assured the Sudanese Ambassador that government of Pakistan would extend every cooperation to the Government of Sudan for revamping its Railway system

An imminent peace deal to end war in southern Sudan will encourage expansion in an oil industry.

South Africa's national oil company is to send technicians to the Sudan to establish whether there are commercially exploitable quantities of oil in an exploration block that it has been allocated

Although South Africa has not played much of a role in peace negotiations, it is chair of the African Union's Committee on Post-Conflict Reconstruction of the Sudan

Celebrations have been tempered by fear the CPA may unravel under pressure from the separate Darfur conflict.

key terms of six peace protocols signed previously by the Sudanese government and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement rebels