White Nile currently has two projects, Block Ba in Southern Sudan and the Southern Rift Basin project in southern Ethiopia.  Block Ba covers an area of approximately 67,000 sq. km and includes parts of the productive Muglad and Melut Basins. Southern Sudan is an established world class petroleum producing area containing a large part of the continent-wide Cretaceous rift basin system that has proved petroliferous in Chad and Niger as well as Sudan. In Ethiopia the Company has agreed terms with the Ministry of Mines of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia for a Joint Study Agreement covering the area of southern Ethiopia known as the ‘Southern Rift Basins’. The approximate 70,000 sq km area is adjacent to Petronas’ Gambela Block in the north and borders Southern Sudan and Kenya to the south.