Russian state exploration company Rosgeologia will travel to Port Sudan next week to present a technical offer on constructing an oil refinery with the capacity of 200,000 barrels per day, Sudanese Petroleum Minister Azhari Abdalla told Sputnik on Wednesday in an interview
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 12th December, 2018) Russian state exploration company Rosgeologia will travel to Port Sudan next week to present a technical offer on constructing an oil refinery with the capacity of 200,000 barrels per day, Sudanese Petroleum Minister Azhari Abdalla told Sputnik on Wednesday in an interview.
Last week, Sudanese Ambassador to Russia Nadir Babiker told Sputnik that Rosgeologia was mulling the construction of an oil refinery in Port Sudan, which could become a major hub connecting consumers in landlocked African countries with oil producers, including the Gulf states.
"Tomorrow we will have a meeting with Rosgeologia company, this is a new project that we have not signed yet on building an oil refinery in Port Sudan. Next week, they will go with us to Port Sudan to see for themselves the place where the oil refinery is planned to be built. A technical offer will be presented there from their side," Abdalla said during his visit to Moscow.
He added that the capacity of the oil refinery was planned to stand at 200,000 barrels per day.�
"Then the first step is entering negotiations. Rosgeologia will coordinate Russia and Sudan, and offer technical studies and planning for this big project, and after that other countries will join. But the organizational work will be implemented by the governments of Russia and Sudan. We are planning the capacity of the refinery to stand at 200,000 barrels per day, and there is no limit of the kind of crude oil that will be processed at this refinery," the Sudanese minister said.
Earlier in the day, Russian Natural Resources and Environment Minister Dmitry Kobylkin said that Russian Gazprombank may also join the construction of an oil refinery in Sudan as an investor.
