The Minister of Finance in South Sudan said that the country's revenues from crude oil sales had diminished due to the ongoing war in its northern neighbor, Sudan. South Sudan was pumping about 150,000 barrels per day of crude oil for export through Sudan, and paying it transit fees.
The Sudanese Minister of Energy, Mohieldin Naeem, announced in a letter dated the 16th of this month a state of force majeure, due to a “major rupture” in the pipeline.