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The head of the Transitional Sovereignty Council, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, issued a decision to return the Sudanese Oil Corporation, seven years after its dissolution in 2019. The decision came within the framework of the state's efforts to reform and reorganize the energy sector and activate the law of oil wealth and the reconstitution of the Oil Council under the chairmanship of the Chairman of the Sovereign Council, and includes in its membership senior leaders and sovereign, economic and security competencies, including ministers of oil, finance and justice, the Director of the General Intelligence Service, and the head of the National Investment Authority, in addition to a limited number of oil experts.
In the same context, al-Burhan issued a decision to appoint Major General Bahri (M) Dr. Ismail Osman Al Hussein Abu Shouk Secretary General of the Sudanese Oil Corporation. The Sudanese Oil Corporation plays a strategic role in the development of oil wealth and good utilization through oil exploration and production and responsibility for providing the country's needs of various petroleum materials and securing strategic stocks.
The Sudanese Oil Corporation was established earlier as a sovereign arm of the management of oil wealth, established under the law of oil wealth of 1998 as a public institution with an independent legal personality, based in Khartoum, and subject to the powers of the Oil Council, which is chaired by the President of the Republic at the time and under the supervision of the Minister of Oil, before being dissolved in 2019, to return today with tasks aimed at unifying the management of the oil sector and energy resources and enhancing its efficiency to serve the national economy.