Transit fees of companies operating in South Sudan go to public treasury

The Ministry of Oil signed , Saturday payments program under which oil companies operating in squares 3,7 State of South Sudan will pay their obligations towards the transit fees and processing of crude oil exported from the share of companies in the context of the framework of agreement signed earlier by the concerned partie .
The Undersecretary of Oil Ministry, Engineer, Awad Al-Karim Mohammed Kheir signed for the ministry and the representatives of the companies which include two Chinese firms in addition to the Malaysian PETRONAS signed for the companies .
Meanwhile, Minister of Oil, Makkawi Mohammed Awad has expected that the agreement will have positive results in the country's foreign currency where 183 million dollars will go directly to the public treasury as arrears .