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China will fudge Iran oil sanctions Related Topics World » By Ulf Laessing and Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM | Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:30pm EST KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Sunday it has started confiscating some oil exports from South Sudan that it believes it is owed to meet unpaid transit fees but will not shut down a pipeline carrying the southern state's oil. The United States said Sudan's move added to tensions with South Sudan, which became independent in July under a 2005 peace deal with Khartoum that ended decades of civil war. North and South Sudan have failed to sort out a long list of disputes. The biggest conflict is over oil revenues - the lifeline of both economies. Land-locked South Sudan has two thirds of the former unified Sudan's oil output but needs to pay fees to use northern export facilities. The two countries have failed to agree on a transit fee but will resume on Tuesday talks sponsored by the African Union in Ethiopia. Previous rounds ended with the parties wide apart. Sudan has started confiscating southern oil to compensate for Juba's failure to pay a fee to use Khartoum's pipeline and the Red Sea port of Port Sudan, members of the northern delegation for the talks in Addis Ababa said. South Sudan pumps around 350,000 barrels per day (bpd), officials have said. Sudan produces 115,000 bpd in its remaining fields but needs it for domestic consumption. "Since early December we've started taking part of our share after the southern government refused to agree on a deal for a transit fee," Saber Mohammed Hassan, a member of the delegation, told reporters. He said Khartoum was now demanding a pipeline fee of $36 a barrel, up from an initial demand of $32. Analysts have said Sudan's demands were 10 times in excess of international norms usually based on a per-mile basis. Delegation member Zubair Ahmed Hassan added Khartoum was taking some southern oil to use for northern refineries but gave no volumes. South Sudan has accused Khartoum of blocking oil exports of 3.4 million barrels in Port Sudan and asking foreign oil firms to divert some oil to refineries in Khartoum and El-Obeid. In a second demand, Khartoum wants Juba to pay a total of $1 billion for transit fees since July, said deputy central bank governor Badr el-Din Mahmoud, another delegate. He said South Sudan also owed Khartoum another $6 billion in debt. "The South has sent us a letter demanding $5 billion but this amount is not correct. We actually demand from the South $6 billion," he said. Sudan's government is under pressure to overcome a severe economic crisis after losing the southern oil, which made up 90 percent of the country's exports. It generated $5 billion in oil revenues in 2010. "The national economy cannot do without oil," said Idris Mohamed Abdul-Qadir, head of Khartoum's delegation. South Sudan has refused to shoulder Sudan's foreign debt pile of almost $40 billion, which has been a burden for the economy for many years in addition to a U.S. trade embargo deterring most Western firms. The United States said Khartoum's action was fueling tensions with Juba. "We are greatly concerned by recent Sudanese public threats and unilateral actions that impede the flow of oil from South Sudan, jeopardize the viability of the oil sector and increase tensions," the U.S. embassy in Khartoum said in a statement. It said Juba should pay a "fair price" based on international norms and negotiate then a separate agreement to ease the impact of loss of southern oil on Sudan. NO COMPROMISE IN SIGHT South Sudan has accused Khartoum of "stealing" its oil exports at the northern port of Port Sudan by ordering its security services to oversee the loading of 650,000 barrels of southern oil worth $65 million on a Sudanese tanker. "The government of Sudan has chosen to steal this oil in broad daylight just days before its own proposed commercial oil negotiations with the Republic of South Sudan," South Sudan's oil minister Stephen Dhieu Dau said in a statement on Saturday. He said the oil pipeline would be closed within days since storage capacity was filling up in Port Sudan but Azhari Abdalla, director-general of Sudan's Oil Exploration and Production Administration, dismissed this. "What I can confirm from our side is we will not close any line. It will stay open. You can take this for granted," he told Reuters. South Sudan's top negotiator Pagan Amum said on Sunday oil companies had sent a letter to Khartoum verifying that South Sudan has paid for the use of oil infrastructure in Sudan since July. 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