Awad Ahmed el Jaz

Sticking points include the relationship between state and religion (including the capital's religious status) marginalised areas and oil where Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha and Oil Minister Awad el Jaz will maintain control...

Awad Ahmed el Jaz: Energy and Mining Minister; was senior in Bank el Shamal; Commerce Cooperation and Supplies Minister 1990; Cabinet Affairs Minister 1993-4; visited Iran on oil guarantees 1993; knows media; Minister for Council of Ministers in the Presidency 1994; on Sudan-Chad-Libya High Committee and Sudan-Libya Integration Committee 1994; security links; oil-power makes him very strong...

Awad Ahmed el Jaz Energy and Mining (nc): Commerce Cooperation and Supplies Minister 1990; Cabinet Affairs 1993; Sudan-Chad-Libya High Committee and Sudan-Libya Integration Committee 1994; Energy 1995; crucial to oil project; some Arab media had touted him as new security chief...

Awad el Jaz: Energy and Mining Minister; crucial to charm campaign; also important in security activities...

In October Arakis said it had produced 20 000 barrels a day from Heglig and the project's first stage would see 150 000 b/d but Energy and Mining Minister Awad Ahmed el Jaz said that current production was 13 000 b/d and would reach 38 000 b/d next year...