Adok

Adok
Adok Location in South Sudan
Coordinates: 8°11′19″N 30°18′25″E / 8.188526°N 30.30688°ECoordinates: 8°11′19″N 30°18′25″E / 8.188526°N 30.30688°E
Country	South Sudan
State	Jonglei State
Climate	Aw

Adok is a port on the White Nile in Jonglei State, South Sudan. In the early 1980s Chevron Corporation found oil in Adok.^[1]

Adok had strategic value during the Second Sudanese Civil War (1983-2005). Between October and December 1991 the town was the scene of fighting between the Nasir and Torit factions of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA).^[2] In the late 1990s the Austrian company OMV began explorations in the Leer-Adok area.^[3] Between December 2002 and early February 2003 the government made a renewed push to clear the road south from Bentiu to the port of Adok.^[4]

References

1. Rone 2003, pp. 183.
2. Johnson 2003, p. 202.
3. Pigott 2009, p. 120.
4. Sudan's Oilfields Burn Again.

Sources

• Johnson, Douglas Hamilton (2003). The root causes of Sudan's civil wars. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-21584-6.
• Pigott, Peter (2009). Canada in Sudan: war without borders. Dundurn Press Ltd. ISBN 1-55002-849-9.
• Rone, Jemera (2003). Sudan, oil, and human rights. Human Rights Watch. ISBN 1-56432-291-2.
• "Sudan's Oilfields Burn Again: Brinkmanship Endangers the Peace Process" (PDF). AFRICA Briefing. International Crisis Group. 10 February 2003. Retrieved 2011-09-12.