South Sudan launches petroleum, geosciences workstation

Oil well in South Sudan.

A worker walks by an oil well at the Toma South oil field to Heglig, in Ruweng State, South Sudan on August 25, 2018. PHOTO | FILE | REUTERS

South Sudan has launched a $6 million petroleum engineering and geoscience workstation to support capacity building in the oil sector.

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Juba, John Akec, said the workstation has applications that can be used to simulate oil wells, monitor and interpret the data.