2013

Lundin Petroleum is a listed company operating with the strictest standards of openness and company leadership in every country where we have operations.

No ethical requirements are made of oil companies wishing to become rich on the Norwegian continental shelf. A raft of organisations are now calling for such requirements to be introduced.

A delegation of US Senators have urged
President Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan to alternatively begin to
truck his country’s oil to the international market through Ethiopia
instead of ever waiting for Khartoum to honour its agreements on oil
transport.

The plan is to complete the $5-6 billion pipeline within a year and a half and start pumping crude oil to the Lamu port for export before embarking on the construction of a refinery to be based in Isiolo. Growing mistrust between Sudan and South Sudan has seen Juba pushing for the project, which should see it export crude oil.

The Swedish oil company, Lundin Petroleum¬, which operates on the Norwegian continental shelf, is being investigate for breaches of international law.

Presidents of Sudan and South Sudan approve range of deals on oil, security and border deals after meeting in Ethiopia.

The inauguration of Hadidah Oilfield has revived hopes by the Sudanese people for an imminent economic recovery after the country has lost 75% of the petroleum revenues due to the secession of South Sudan. Their hopes for rejoining the club of oil exporters were also heightened, according to the Minister of Petroleum, Dr. Awad Ahmed al-Jazz.

The Swedish company Lundin has been accused of war crimes in Sudan. The company is not welcome in the oil fields which now lie in the new country, South Sudan.