The  agreement signed between the oil ministers of the two countries today includes construction of a refinery.

South Africa’s Energy Minister Jeff Radebe and his South Sudanese counterpart Ezekiel Gatkouth said when inking the memorandum of understanding in Juba today that the deal offers avenues for cooperation in the construction of a pipeline to serve fields in the south of the world’s newest country.

Radebe says when the refinery is completed it will have the capacity to produce 60 000 barrels of oil daily.

South Sudan’s oil industry is dominated by Asian firms including China National Petroleum Corporation, Malaysia’s Petronas and India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.

Today’s agreement involves South African  participation  in the exploration of several oil blocks.

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