Key Oil Infrastructure - Oil Concession including Free Blocks (James - 2015)

Source: James, L. M. (2015). Fields of control: Oil and (In)Security in Sudan and South Sudan. Geneva: Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

South Sudan’s oil industry is constrained by the fact that the refining capacity, oil pipeline and export infrastructure are in the north, far from the reserves themselves. The oil pipelines extend from the oil fields to Port Sudan. Most of the oil producing blocks are located in Unity and Upper Nile areas and include Blocks 3 and 7 (Dar blend); to a lesser extent, Block 6 (Fula crude) and block 5A (Thar Jath crude). Blocks 1, 2 and 4 (Nile blend) are split between South Sudan and Sudan as they cover part of the border and the disputed Abyei region.