Sudan expects it will be able to launch a bidding round for oil and gas blocks in the country in the third quarter of 2019 , Sudan’s Petroleum Minister Azhari Abdalla said on Tuesday. “I really expect a lot of companies to come, particularly now since we are working … on the second phase of discussions with the United States so we can have this embargo lifted,” Abdalla told Reuters in another media appearance over the past week in which Sudan’s oil minister expressed optimism that with part of the U.S. sanctions lifted, the country would be able to attract companies to revive its stalled oil production. Last week, Abdalla said at the Africa Oil Week conference in Cape Town that Sudan felt “confident that now is really the time for a second boom in this country.” South Sudan broke from Sudan in 2011 and took with it around […]