Russian Chamber of Commerce delegation continues meetings with Sudanese officials

Port Sudan-Sudanhorizon
The delegation from the Russian Chamber of Commerce, currently in Port Sudan, met on Friday within its series of meetings with senior officials, the Minister of Energy and Oil, Mohyeddin Naim.
The minister renewed to the visiting Russian delegation the Sudanese government interest in furthering cooperating with Russia in a number of areas, especially in the field of oil, gas and electricity, explaining that Sudan’s doors remain open for Russia and all those ready to cooperate with Sudan.
Naim was briefed the visiting delegation on the available opportunities for investment in the field of oil and gas, pointing to the available investment squares, stressing the importance of cooperation with Russia in extracting gas from the Red Sea coast. The minister also pointed out to opportunities to invest in rehabilitated domains destroyed by the war in Sudan, especially the power generation stations in Khartoum State, beside other vital facilities in the oil and electricity sectors. He said the country looks to borrow from the Russian expertise in the fields of oil and electricity in order to implement its electricity plan in the search to expand the national grid to cover wider areas of Sudan, including to rural electricity.
The minister said the government is now planning to decentralize factories to the states which will ease provision of energy services, especially renewable energy.
The Chairman of the Sudanese-Russian Business Council, Viktor Shamdanov, who is leading a number of businessmen and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce has confirmed , in the presence of the Russian Ambassador to Sudan their serious desire and full readiness to enter into investment with Sudan in the oil, gas and electricity sectors. He explained that Russia has sufficient experience in a number of fields, including pipelines, petroleum fields, refineries, electricity generation from gas and clean energy, stressing that they have new projects to develop energy in Sudan in the field of clean energy and power plants using gas, all of which contribute to operating factories and power plants in Sudan.
The head of the delegation extended an invitation to the Sudanese Minister to participate in the Russian Energy Week Forum in order to get a firsthand information about the Russian experience in the field of energy and to visit the Russian oil company, Zarrojia, which is one of the global leading companies in the field of oil and gas, and also seize the opportunity for to meet his Russian counterpart.