Sudan: Bashir moots gas imports

Sudan still has hopes of exploiting its gas reserves, put at 3tcf, but with demand for electricity and industrial feedstock rising, President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir on 30 November said the government planned a pipeline from Port Sudan to Khartoum to facilitate gas imports. Reports suggested that Sudan’s increasingly friendly ties with Qatar could open the way for liquefied natural gas imports, which were discussed during a November visit to Doha by defence minister Abdelrahim Mohammed Hussein. After a meeting with Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani, Hussein told reporters he had signed an “agreement to export gas from Qatar to Sudan for electricity production”, starting at the beginning of 2015.