Existing production going on in South Sudan is all near the border with Sudan in the north along with all infrastructures for product transport and export into a waterfront space that has a geopolitically critically complex set of potential chokepoint relationships. The objective is to develop production in this area towards the border of South Sudan and Kenya, with product transport infrastructure that is 2100km long and having Indian Ocean strategic access, through the multichannel deepwater Port of Lamu.
The Indian Ocean is considered to be the most important intersection of politics in the 21st century, with half of the world’s shipping and two-thirds of world’s global oil supplies travelling across its sea lanes. The region is also home to a demographic upside with a rising population that has an enormous economic potential as an engine of productivity and therefore, product market, living around its waters.