Scrutiny of oil figures from CNPC suggests that the Khartoum government has been cheating the South of substantial revenues
Beijing faces a new round of criticism over its heavy investments
in Sudan's oil business following the publication of a report
by British lobbyists Global Witness(1) on 7 September pointing
to massive discrepancies between production figures released by
Khartoum and those of the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation.
If the CNPC figures are accurate, it would mean that the National
Congress Party regime in Khartoum is substantially underreporting
oil production, especially in fields where it has to share sales
revenue with the Government of Southern Sudan....
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