Oil Price in South Sudan — Brent & WTI Crude Today

South Sudan is a major crude producer whose pipelines run through Sudan to the Red Sea. Oil exports are the overwhelming source of government revenue, priced relative to Brent despite internal and regional challenges.

Classified here as a opec+ participant (non-opec), South Sudan trades against Dated Brent. That is the pricing reference the sections below work from — the headline Brent number quoted at the top of this page is the global marker, not necessarily the price South Sudan settles at.

South Sudan is not an OPEC member but participates in the OPEC+ declaration of cooperation, so it takes on a voluntary production commitment without a seat in OPEC itself. That gives it influence over the supply side of the Brent price while leaving it exposed to compliance disputes: when OPEC+ discipline slips, the benchmark usually falls faster than the group's own output rises.

Dated Brent is the reference for Atlantic Basin, European and West African trade, so the headline Brent price maps fairly directly onto import and export contracts here.

South Sudan has only limited refining capacity relative to demand, so it exports crude and re-imports refined product. That combination is unforgiving: the country sells at a benchmark-linked crude price and buys back at a product price that includes someone else's refining margin and the freight both ways.

Crude is invoiced in US dollars worldwide. Where local prices are quoted in dollars or in a dollar-pegged currency, that removes one layer of volatility: buyers in South Sudan face the crude move on its own, without an exchange-rate move stacked on top of it.