Southern Sudan plans to build an oil pipeline link to an oil pipeline in Kisumu, Kenya as opposed to using the link in the northern Sudan when it becomes an independent state on 9 July 2011. According to the southern Sudan Minister of Road and Transport, southern Sudan will control 75% of the Sudan’s total oil production of 500,000 barrels per day. Talks with several oil firms to build 200 kilometer oil pipeline to Kenyan link in Kisumu. Many east African countries including Uganda in the south have expressed interest in purchasing oil from southern Sudan. If followed through, the new pipeline to Kenya would link with the Mombasa Eldoret pipeline which serves Kenya, Tanzania Uganda, eastern Congo, Rwanda and Burundi.
