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Russian company joins oil consortium

    NAIROBI

    A Russian-Belarus oil company Slavneft will join a consortium of oil companies to prospect for oil in Sudan, the Russian Interfax news agency reported on 22 April. The move was part of a government effort to diversify the oil industry and open it up to all investors, Muhammad Dirdiery of the Sudanese Embassy in Nairobi told IRIN. Slavneft would operate in northern and central Sudan in the Melut basin, and would start work by December 2001, Dirdiery said.

    According to the official Sudanese News Agency (Suna), President Umar al-Bashir met Slavneft executives on 21 April. Company executives pledged to provide unspecified “social services” to the populations of their area of operations, said Suna.

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