据路透社11月23日朱巴消息称，南非能源部长及其南苏丹石油部门周五表示，南非将向南苏丹的石油部门投资10亿美元，包括建造一座炼油厂。
南苏丹的石油工业由亚洲公司主导，包括中国石油天然气集团公司（CNPC）、马来西亚国家石油公司和印度石油天然气公司（onGC Videsh）。
他们说，两国部长签署了一份谅解备忘录（MoU），该备忘录还包括南非参与的几个石油区块的勘探。
南非部长杰夫拉德贝在没有提供进一步细节的情况下表示：“当这座炼油厂建成后，它将具备日产6万桶石油的能力。”
然而，一位接近南苏丹政府的消息人士告诉路透社：“除了要求两国合作研究兴建炼油厂可能性谅解备忘录之外，没有承诺建造炼油厂。”
南苏丹部长Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth说：“我们今天上午签署的是我们两家国家石油公司、Nilepet和南非能源基金之间的合作，随后资金将来自南非的中央能源基金（CEF）。”
CEF是一家控股公司，其主要资产是南非国家石油和天然气局PetroSA。
Gatkuoth表示，该协议还为修建一条输油管提供了合作的途径，以便为该国南部油田提供服务。
南苏丹通过输油管道输出原油，该管道通往北部邻国苏丹的一个港口。
Gatkuoth说，但没有详细说明时间表或潜在成本：“修建一条新管道非常重要。”
Gatkuoth本周表示，南苏丹原油日产量为13.5万桶，高于8月的13万桶。
曹海斌 摘译自 路透社
原文如下：
South Africa to invest $1 billion in South Sudan's oil sector
South Africa will invest $1 billion in South Sudan’s oil sector, including in the construction of a refinery, the South African minister for energy and his South Sudanese counterpart for petroleum said South Sudan’s oil industry is dominated by Asian firms including China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Malaysia’s Petronas and India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (onGC Videsh).
The two ministers signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which will also involve South Africa taking part in the exploration of several oil blocks, they said.
“When this refinery is complete, it will have the capacity of producing 60,000 barrels of oil per day,” Jeff Radebe, the South African minister said without giving further details.
A source close to the South Sudanese government however told Reuters that “there is no commitment to build a refinery” beyond the MoU calling for collaboration between the two countries to study the possibility of building it.
“What we have signed this morning is the cooperation between our two national oil companies, Nilepet and South Africa Energy Fund then from there the funding will come from Central Energy Fund (CEF) of South Africa,” Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth, the South Sudanese minister said.
The CEF is a holding company whose main asset is South Africa’s national oil and gas agency, PetroSA.
Gatkuoth said the deal also offered avenues for cooperation in the construction of a pipeline to serve fields located in the south of the country.
South Sudan exports its crude through a pipeline that goes to a port in neighbouring Sudan to the north.
“It is instrumental to have a new pipeline,” Gatkuoth said, without giving details South Sudan is producing 135,000 barrels per day (bpd) from 130,000 bpd in August, Gatkuoth said this week.
