Honorable Minister Puot Kang Chol, minister of Petroleum participates
today in Vienna – Austria on 8th OPEC International Seminar under
the theme: “Towards a sustainable and Inclusive Energy Transition”. During the
ministerial panel discussion on diversifying energy economies, the minister
emphasis that the best way to create access to the bigger part of the
population is to acquire resources to establish renewable energy sources because
in the absence of the resources there should be an alternative. The minister
said, South Sudan has to build dams and create hydroelectric power and what is
needed is the investor and if there is an investor, we can legalize it because
the first responsibility of the government is to ensure the exploitation of the
resources bestow to us so we are inviting investors to come and invest in South
Sudan to enable us using the resource generated from the hydroelectricity to
develop other sectors. The best example is, South Sudan had a refinery in one
of the states far from Juba and is schedule to produce 10,000 barrels per a day
the social commitment were met before we started the day today operations and
we faced other problems of the transportation of the refined production to Juba
and other states.