South Sudan’s Petroleum Committee in the Transitional National Legislative Assembly received a report on the Ministry of Petroleum’s budget from a delegation led by Undersecretary Dr Santino Ayuel Longar, the state broadcaster SSBC reported on September 22. Committee chair Butros Alison Manani Makaya praised the ministry’s technical team and said the committee was committed to supporting national development through petroleum resources. The broadcast report did not state the budget’s total amount, its revenue assumptions or how allocations were divided among ministry functions.

Longar outlined challenges facing the ministry, particularly in field operations, and asked lawmakers to support its development plan. The account provides no list of the operational constraints, project-level spending or legislative decisions resulting from the hearing. The briefing therefore records a budget review and a request for support; it does not establish that new funding was approved or that oil production targets, field output or infrastructure schedules changed.