Three Nigerian Companies, One Australian Selected as Competent for Uganda Oil Exploration licensing round

Uganda has picked three Nigerian companies and one from Australia for its oil exploration licensing round, inviting them to negotiate for production sharing agreements, it said on Monday. It announced its first competitive bidding round for six exploration blocks, covering a total of 3,000 square kilometres (1,150 square miles), in February 2015. Bidding documents were

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Tanzania Energy Minister Says DR Congo and Burundi Want to Join Uganda Pipeline Project

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Burundi expressed interest to join the Uganda-Tanzania Oil Pipeline project, a Tanzanian official said Tanzania Minister for Energy and Minerals, Prof Sospeter Muhongo, made the revelation in Dar es Salaam while opening a one-day meeting of ministerial Permanent Secretaries and Regional Commissioners from areas expected to be affected by

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