Sudan and South Sudan agreed to extend an oil deal between the two countries but they failed to settle the exact terms. When the two countries split in 2011 after decades of war, they agreed that the South would pay a transit fee which is set at US $9.5 per bbl to take its crude to the coast via its neighbour's pipeline system. But there is another $15 per bbl withheld to pay off an agreed debt when South Sudan seceded from the larger state. The fall in global oil prices means that the south is finding oil sales unprofitable.
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