UK – UGANDA – International development organisation Transaid has launched a nationwide appeal to find a second-hand tractor unit and trailer to support its new driver training project in Uganda. Transaid urgently requires an artic combination to bolster its training fleet from early 2018, and is calling on manufacturers, dealers, used vehicle retailers and operators
Uganda has so far discovered 6.5 billion barrels of oil resources in 40% of the explored area in the Albertine graben. OIL PRODUCTION The government has set up a resettlement planning committee for persons affected by the oil industrial area to be established in Buliisa district. The oil companies – Total E&P and Tullow –
As Uganda fast-tracks the start of its commercial production of oil, the country is looking at China to access credit. Chinese financiers, entrepreneurs, and their Ugandan counterparts on Friday held an oil and gas conference to discuss partnership opportunities in the country’s nascent sector, whose first oil is expected by the end of 2020. The
Standard Bank Group’s Ugandan unit plans to raise $3 billion (€2.56bn) for a crude pipeline by the second half of next year as the east African country prepares to start oil production by 2020. According to The Irish Times, Oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil, which was founded in Co Carlow, is jointly developing
UK firm Tullow Oil one of Uganda’s major oil and gas exploration firms has launched its oil exploration into Zambian territory as the country pushes to diversify its economy and reduce its reliance on the industrial metal. Apart from Uganda’s Oil and Gas exploration, Tullow Oil is undertaking similar projects in other countries such as
BELOW ARE THE JOB DETAILS The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) is a statutory body established under Section 9 of the Petroleum (Exploration, Development and Production) Act 2013, and in line with the National Oil and Gas Policy for Uganda which was approved in 2008. The PAU’s mandate is to monitor and regulate the exploration,
Uganda will next month on 27-28th September host the 3rd Uganda International Oil & Gas Summit (UIOGS) 2017, in partnership with Total and CNOOC Limited as lead sponsors and co-hosts to the event respectively at the Hotel Serena, Kampala. The country hosted a similar event in 2016 where President Yoweri K Museveni alongside Hon. Minister
The Uganda Government said on Monday it had agreed preliminary terms with a consortium of investors including to build and operate the country’s first oil refinery, reviving a much-delayed project. Authorities said a thorough review process of over 40 companies that expressed interest to developed the much anticipated oil refinery, the Government had agreed with
The long-awaited works on taking Uganda’s crude oil to export markets started yesterday Saturday August 5, 2017 with President Yoweri Museveni and his Tanzanian counterpart Joseph Pombe Magufuli commissioning the construction of the 1,445km-long East African crude oil pipe line from Hoima district in Uganda to the Tanzanian port of Tanga. President Museveni arrived in
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his Tanzania counterpart, John Pombe Magufuli , are expected to launch the construction of the multi-billion Hoima-Tanga crude oil pipeline this saturday, diplomatic officials have revealed. According to The New Vision, the 11,445km oil pipieline from Hoima district in western Uganda to the Tanzania Port of Tanga, which will be