ENLARGE Internally displaced South Sudanese receive cooking oil and food aid from the World Food Program in Bor, Jonglei state, on Dec. 10. The war-ravaged nation on Monday signed an agreement with China National Petroleum Co. in a bid to bolster oil production in the country. Reuters KAMPALA Uganda—South Sudan has signed an agreement with China National Petroleum Co., or CNPC, to boost oil production in at least three blocks, officials said Monday as the war-ravaged nation attempts to heal its battered oil industry. CNPC said in a statement that it would use heavy oil recovery technologies in ”stabilizing and increasing crude output” in the three blocks in the oil-rich but restive nation. The deal highlights how quickly China wants to restore South Sudan’s oil production which has slumped by a third since the outbreak of the conflict late last year, posing a threat to a vital source of […]