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Extractives

3 evidence records SSIP holds for Extractives — sector coverage across 3 datasets, each with its source, date and evidence state.

What SSIP holds for Extractives

  • 3 evidence records
  • 1 carry a recorded value; 2 do not
  • 1 are declared gaps — recorded absences, which are findings in their own right
  • Evidence states present: 1 UNAVAILABLE, 1 ANNOUNCED, 1 OPERATIONAL
  • Drawn from 3 datasets: national.dataGaps, canonical.policies, product.changes

This is what SSIP holds, not a claim about what exists. Coverage is concentrated in Juba, Central Equatoria and the Nimule and Nile corridors; outside that scope the corpus is thin.

Evidence records

  • Artisanal Gold Production Volumes & Formal Export Clearing Declarations — SSIP does not hold Artisanal Gold Production Volumes & Formal Export Clearing Declarations for Eastern Equatoria State. This is a recorded absence, not a value of zero.
    Value: Not held. This is a recorded absence, not a value of zero.
    Evidence state: UNAVAILABLE (Not asserted: no source locator (reference, URL or publisher), no date, no confidence, no review by a named person.) · Confidence: INSUFFICIENT
    Source: SSIP gap register · Date not recorded
    Method: Over 85% of artisanal gold mining is smuggled across the Kenya and Uganda borders without NRA royalty payments.
  • Petroleum Act (2012) & Local Content Regulations — Petroleum Act (2012) & Local Content Regulations — enacted by National Legislative Assembly / Ministry of Petroleum, gazetted 2012. Current status: ENACTED_ACTIVE.
    Value: Not held. This is a recorded absence, not a value of zero.
    Evidence state: ANNOUNCED (Not asserted: no review by a named person.) · Confidence: HIGH
    Source: Acts of South Sudan No. 47 of 2012 · Publisher: National Legislative Assembly / Ministry of Petroleum · Dated: 2012-01-01
    Method: Strictly governs upstream operations of DPOC, GPOC, and SPOC consortia and all oilfield service providers.
  • PetroDar Pipeline Pressure Stabilizes at Pump Station #4 in Heglig Corridor; Output at 142k bpd — Technical field engineers completed thermal insulation repairs and pigging on the 32-inch export pipeline, raising operational crude flow to 142,000 barrels per day.
    Value: 142 Crude Export Flow (kbpd)
    Evidence state: OPERATIONAL (Not asserted: no source locator (reference, URL or publisher), no confidence, no review by a named person.) · Confidence: INSUFFICIENT
    Source: Ministry of Petroleum Daily Dispatch Sheet, Pipeline Pressure Telemetry at Port Sudan Terminal · Dated: 2026-08-26
    Method: Before 131 kbpd, after 142 kbpd (+8.4%).

How to read this

Every figure on this page carries an evidence state — Verified, Operational, Announced, Estimated, Inferred, Disputed, Simulated, Reference or Unavailable — and each state has a stated definition. SSIP does not present an estimate as an observation, and it does not record a missing value as zero.

Read the methodology · Open the evidence ledger · See declared gaps

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Recorded relationships

1 relationship SSIP holds for this entity, each with the evidence state it is permitted to claim. A relationship is not a fact because it is drawn; it is a claim with a source.

Sector

  • in sector: Petroleum Act (2012) & Local Content Regulations [ANNOUNCED]
    The policy record categorises it as "PETROLEUM_MINING".

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