D CEO has announced its Oil and Gas Awards finalists for 2018 from whom the winners will be chosen. The 2018 winners with be revealed at an exclusive awards event in October Tuesday, Oct. 30, at The Petroleum Club. The nominees were filtered basing on the CEOs, CFOs, and innovators who have helped to make
Total E&P Uganda, the mastermind of the Tilenga and East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline Projects EACOP has started trainings on the first batch of students for the today welders training programme launched earlier this year. Over 200 students are targeted in the strategy and are to be divided into 8 groups of 25 for the 2G
The Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) Ltd and China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to partner in oil exploration in Western Uganda. The MoU was signed by Dr. Josephine Wapakhabulo, CEO UNOC and Mr. Fang Zhi, the Chairman of CNOOC international today in Beijing and was witnessed by
According to Honey Malinga, the director of the Directorate of Petroleum, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development,the industry experiences many challenges towards local content and skills development. Uganda needs over 25,000 qualified workers, craftsmen and technicians to exploit oil and precious minerals(New vision 27 August 2018) While addressing graduates of the Youth Employment Enhancement Project (YEEP)
The long awaited deal of the Tanzania – Uganda natural gas pipeline has been finally sealed off after an agreement was signed on Saturday August 25, 2018. The natural gas pipeline project was launched in Tanga by Presidents John Magufuli of Tanzania and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and French oil multinational Total is the main
The Uganda government together with other parties in the Uganda oil and gas sector are looking forward to promoting the countries mineral resource at the Africa Oil Week 2018. “We encourage operators, investors and service companies to attend the Oil Week and meet with officials from the Government of Uganda and the private sector. Uganda
Iraq’s Basra Oil Company and Chevron signed an agreement to start oilfield development, with plans for a new energy company and a refinery, according to the country’s oil ministry. The deal includes preliminary studies, after which an energy company will be established. It will execute field development and feasibility studies will be carried out in addition to gas processing
Ukraine has raised natural gas reserves in its underground storage facilities (UGS) by 6.414 billion cubic meters (bcm) after the end of the heating season, JSC Ukrtransgaz has said. Thus, from April 8 to August 18, gas reserves in storage facilities grew by 86.3%, to 13.849 bcm from 7.435 bcm. According to Interfax-Ukraine’s estimates, gas
French supermajor Total will increase Nigeria’s oil production by 200,000 bpd by the end of the year, a senior official from the local unit of the company said at an industry event, adding that the increase will come from the development of the Egina Deep project. “Our plan is to maintain aggressive exploration and appraisal
The next episode of friction between Beijing and Washington could be staged in Iran, where a top Chinese energy firm, defying latest U.S. sanctions, is likely to expand its stake in a giant Iranian gas field. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the world’s third-largest oil and gas firm, has replaced Total, the French energy giant,