South Sudan’s minister of petroleum and mining Stephen Dhieu Dau said they intend to start official talks with Khartoum on reducing oil transportation fees through northern pipelines.
Dhieu did not disclose an exact date for those talks.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday at Juba International Airport, the minister said he discussed reduction of transit fees with his Sudanese counterpart on the sidelines of an oil and mining conference in India.
The meeting in India also touched on resumption of oil production in Unity State which was disrupted by the civil war, he said.
Khartoum recently agreed to consider reducing transit fees due to collapse of international oil prices to under thirty dollars per barrel. South Sudan currently pays about $24.50 per barrel to Sudan for use of the northern pipelines.
File photo: Petroleum Minister Stephen Dhieu Dau