Uganda insurance companies have formed a body that will extend insurance covers to the companies involved in the Uganda oil and gas industry The coordinator of Oil and Gas Uganda Insures Association, Ms Margie Lokowe, in an interview with Daily Monitor, said Uganda insurance companies have already formed a consortium in preparations of providing insurance
The Uganda oil sector may postpone oil production commencement from it’s oil refinery to 2022 due to delays in the project studies. This will put it two years ahead of the set date of production of 2020 to 2022. According to Energy Minister Irene Muloni, the Front-end Engineering Design, or FEED which was supposed to
The Petroleum Authority of Uganda Director of Exploration, Mr Dozith Abeinomugisha has revealed that 1000 Ugandan companies have collected a total sum of $873 million (Shs3.3 trillion) from the $3.318 billion (Shs12.6 trillion) invested in Uganda’s petroleum subsector over the last nine years. Appearing before Parliament’s Committee on Natural Resources, Abeinomugisha revealed that the companies provided civil works, environment
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
Over 45 fuel station have been listed for by the Energy ministry and Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) closure over selling fake fuel. A report from the Rev Frank Tukwasibwe, the commissioner of Petroleum Supply Department in the Energy ministry stated that the affected fuel stations failed the quarterly fuel marking exercise that differentiates
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)
Workers at three oil and gas platforms in the North Sea operated by Total have planned for a fifth set of a 24-hour on August 20,after failure to reach an agreement in the meeting with the French major on Thursday. Unite, UK’s biggest trade union today posted on twitter; “Unite met Total today where
Statement by UNCTAD… Conference participants from all over the world analysed the potential for exploration and production of oil and gas, and investment opportunities, in Sudan and other African countries at UNCTAD’s 17th African OILGASMINE Conference and Exhibition in Khartoum. The oil, gas and mining industries – currently employing around 1 per cent of Africa’s workforce –
The government of Uganda has entered a memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Tanzania to commence studies on an alternative Crude oil export Pipeline from Hoima to Tanga Port In Tanzania than the one earlier announced. This MOU undermines earlier settlements between Uganda and Kenya on 1,380-kilometre route from Oil rich Albertine graben through Lokichar basin