Four companies appear to have signed separate deals at different times purporting to secure exclusive rights to the same acreage and the sabre-rattling has now reached fever pitch.
Goss Industry&Mines Minister Albino Akol Akol told a CWC conference in Nairobi last month that he hoped the results of current talks on a compromise deal would allay fears.
Total was awarded the block in 1982 for 20 years by Khartoum, but the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLM/SPLA) never recognised the North's jurisdiction and reallocated it to White Nile before last year's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) came into force.
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