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Sudan Planning to Improve Oil Production to Feed Refineries - Minister

© AP Photo / Abd Raouf(File) Sudan's Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha walks during an event inaugurate an oil field, South Kordofan, Sudan, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012
(File) Sudan's Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha walks during an event inaugurate an oil field, South Kordofan, Sudan, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012 - Sputnik International
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RIYADH (Sputnik) - Sudan is planning to improve oil production for the needs of oil refineries, in particular, Sudan’s Minister of Oil and Gas Abdel Rahman Osman Abdel Rahman told Sputnik on Wednesday.

"We are trying to improve oil production in Sudan, although we may not be exporting as yet. We need oil for oil refineries, now we are buying from partners their share of oil in order to feed refineries, so whatever we will produce we are consuming," the minister said on the sidelines of the symposium.

Nevertheless, the country will remain committed to the oil curtailment deal between OPEC and 10 other major oil producers, he added.

"We are conforming quite well, we are over-conforming even," the Sudanese minister noted.

He added that an oilfield in the Unity state, once its production is restarted, could bring even more than the previous maximum capacity of 70,000 barrels per day.

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