Tuan Maizukie. Salam.
Thanks for sharing your family photo with us. Indeed it is a lovely family. Alhamdulillah.
You said the youngest child has very close connection with the Marine Terminal. Does she swims and loves seafood? If not, make sure she does love both. I hope the family growth does not stop here. Rasulullah saw loves his ummah to have big family!!!!
Sudan is targeting an increase of 100,000 barrels of oil a day mid-2009 as the result of new investments, particularly Chinese, come on stream, the Sudan oil minister has said.
In an interview this week with Dow Jones Newswires, Zubair Ahmed al-Hassan said the African country plans a daily output of 600,000 barrels mid-2009, compared with 500,000 now.
The country holds one of Africa's largest proven oil reserves at 6.4 billion barrels but growth in output has been hindered by a civil war in the South that formally ended in 2005.
The minister said the projects that will fuel this output hike will include a ramp up of Block 6 in the South West of the country. He said the operator, China national Petroleum Corp., or CNPC, intends to increase production from 40,000 barrels a day to 60,000 this year.
The recent discovery of light oil on this block should help production rise on this block, he added.
He said exploration on Red Sea blocks 13 and 15, in which CNPC is also a shareholder, offered the possibility of production development. "Signs of gas" have been detected in these blocks, which could be used for electricity generation and, as a second option, for industries or liquefied-natural-gas exports, he said.
Among other prospects for oil output growth, South Africa's national oil company PetroSA started seismic work earlier this year in Block 14, a Northern block bordering Egypt and Libya, he said.
Al-Hassan also said Sudan is mulling joining the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a program that aims at improving resources revenue transparency by governments and companies.
"We are considering it," he said, adding that the 2005 peace agreement between North and South Sudan already stipulates extensive disclosures.
We were invited to attend a wedding celebration at one of our Sudanese friends house on the evening of April 21, 2008. It was a wonderful experience for all of us because we never been to any such wedding celebration before. To fulfill our host request, we joined the traditional dance. Our good friend Zul Inar was so excited with the rhythm of the music and be the first among us to join the dance. I have seen his legs started to shake liked a rattle snake an hour earlier. I have a good video of the dance but failed to upload. The file size is too large maaa.....
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The world is changing every fraction of a second. So do our life in the MT. Adopting to local food and culture is not something that can be avoided. The patience will survive !!!
The construction camp service company, F&B demobilized from site two days after their service ended on 15th March, 08. They have been servicing us since year 2005. It was a sad moment for the Asian food lovers including the local Sudanese engineers. We have expected this to happen and everybody has to adjust to new food recipes.
Picture worth thousand words or accusations. By first glance, you may think that the man with the iron rod had inhumanly abused the donkey. In actual fact, he is an animal lover.
I woke up one morning (few days ago) and found the water tap had dried out. After the fajar prayer, I found traces of water on the ground originated from Raj cabin and a donkey lied under his cabin. I woke up Tuan Daing to unlock Raj room (assuming his room was flooded with water) and to close the main water supply valve. Then we realized that the donkey had hit the main water pipe under the cabin causing water to gush out and consequently drained several water tanks. Luckily there were two other spare water tanks full with water.
Daing tried to save the donkey by pulling her two ears. With the help of a Sudanese engineer, both able to pull the donkey away from the cabin and allowed her to stand up right. There was another donkey few meters away waiting for her. Daing had the impression that both donkey were expressing their natural desires but one slip under the cabin. Other people said, donkey can be considered as a brilliant animal. She was desperately looking for water, after failing to satisfy her desire for water, she purposely hit the water pipe. Unfortunately, the amount of water was too much causing the soil to soak and wet. She had sunk into the mud and slip under the cabin. That's all about the "mat sentul" story.
