Forgetting about jobs in a country where 62% of the youths are jobless, is the kind of news that many will resent but a reality that has to be faced. Such was the kind of message that Uganda Oil and Gas sector players were sending out to the participants of a workshop organised by the
Japan’s Toyota Tsusho wins contract to design Uganda-Kenya pipeline
Japan’s Toyota Tsusho has won a contract to design an oil export pipeline from Uganda to Kenya’s coast, a Kenyan official says. According to Joseph Njoroge, the Kenya Energy Ministry’s principal secretary, Toyota Tsusho, the company awarded the contract for the feasibility study and preliminary engineering design must submit their report within the next five
ESLSCA partners with Uganda Chamber of Mines and Petroleum to offer students scholarships in Oil and Gas studies
The Uganda Chamber of Mines and Petroleum (UCMP) has partnered with ESLSCA to enable young Ugandans attain short-term training in oil and gas and ICT. The partnership will benefits S.6 leavers as well as university students who would like to improve their skills as well as acquire new skills in the budding oil and gas
Environmental Management is key to managing Uganda’s oil- NEMA Executive Director
The Executive Director of the National Environmental Management Authority, Dr. Tom Okurut has said environmental management is a key factor in the development of Uganda’s Oil and Gas Sector, Resource Management and Financial Management being the other key elements in the sector. While speaking at 1st Petroleum Industry Environmental Management Conference held at Speke Resort
UN Women and Publish What You Pay launch gender toolkit that seeks to empower women in the extractives sector
UN Women and Publish What You Pay (PWYP), a global coalition campaigning for an open extractive sector have launched a toolkit “Extracting Equality – A Guide”, which examines how to approach the issue of gender within the extractive sector. Written by PWYP and UN Women, along with experts working on gender and the extractives worldwide, the
Bunyoro Kitara Royal University: a community university seeking for leverage in Oil and Gas Management Training
On 15th September 2014 Bunyoro Kitara Royal University opened its gates to its first lot of students. The University whose campus lies along Rukurato Road neighbours Karuzika the King’s Palace in Hoima and stands just opposite Hoima Public Library. From the conception of existence, the essence of Bunyoro Kitara Royal University has always been embedded
Refinery site residents abandon farming as they await oil compensation money
In this little-known village of Kyapaloni, we have just arrived in the trading centre and the boys or should we say the young men are playing cards. It‘s few minutes past noon, people should be somewhere in the garden digging but who cares about digging any more, not in this village. Kyapaloni is a village
World Bank to inject $600 in the Uganda- Kenya Oil pipeline
The World Bank has pledged to inject $600 to facilitate the construction of a regional pipeline linking oil fields in Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan. In a statement made on Monday the World Bank said that the funds would be provided by its private- lending arm, the International Finance Corporation. The fund is part of
Museveni’s attitude on rights of mineral-rich land owners depicts a colonial kind of mentality
By James Muhindo Seven days to the 52nd independence celebrations in Uganda, President Y.K. Museveni while at the Conference on Mineral wealth, in Kampala Uganda, took the country five decades back in the struggle for human rights. As reported in one of Uganda’s Dailies, the president said that government will change the law to allow
Is oil giving Hoima a new lease of life? Tracing the changing face of Uganda’s “Oil City”
On the Journey to Hoima It’s 4:00pm and I am boarding a commuter taxi to Hoima. It’s not the first time I am travelling to Hoima and neither is it the last. The only difference today, I am not just travelling back home to check on my parents. I have to check on our oil