On November 17, CNPC and the Ministry of Energy and Mining of Sudan signed three cooperation documents in Khartoum.
CNPC and Sudanese Ministry of Energy & Mining also signed a MOU on the second phase expansion of Khartoum Refinery and a memoire on prepayment for crude oil trading. Additionally, CNPC, Petronas, and MEM of Sudan signed a MOU on further strengthening cooperation in upstream projects in Sudan, to impel partial equity replacement between CNPC's Block 6 and Petronas's Block 5A.