South Sudan pledges to raise oil production to prewar levels

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South Sudan's oil minister has declared that improved relations with Sudan will help restore crude production to the levels it reached when it gained independence, lifting pressure on the two neighbours’ ailing economies. The tone of co-operation marks a stark turnround for two states that fought a decades-long war, signalling a potential boost for big Asian oil companies that invested heavily in South Sudan only to see production disrupted by instability. Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, South Sudan’s minister of petroleum, told the Financial Times he and his counterparts in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, have been instructed by their respective leaders to work as closely as possible to resume and increase production. “Relations between South Sudan and Sudan are at their best,” Mr Gatkuoth said in an interview in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. “We are being strictly instructed by the two leaders,” he said.
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