Sudan Khartoum Refinery Company the entire needs of Sudan making it self-sufficient from petroleum by-products. Excess petroleum is exported from Bashair Port on the Red Sea through a pipeline of 1610 km length, making it the longest pipeline in Africa. Sudan Khartoum Refinery Company The Sudan Khartoum Refinery Company is a petroleum company in Sudan. The company its name is abbreviated to KRC. The company was founded in 1997 and began operations in 2000. KRC is based in Khartoum. The company is 50% owned by the Sudanese government's Ministry of Energy & Mining (MEM) and 50% owned by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)..
Khartoum (state) Nile State, and in the west by North Kurdufan. There are several etymologies for the name of Khartoum. The explanation suggested as "most correct" by the state government's website is that it comes from the Arabic for "elephant's trunk", which describes the shape of the site of the city at the confluence of the two Niles, where a stretch of land extends into the water. Other stories are that it is a corruption of "gurtoum", the name for seeds of the sunflower plant, supposedly used by Roman invaders at the current site of Khartoum to treat soldiers' wounds, or that