In April 2018, Uganda entered into a Project Framework Agreement (PFA) with the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium (AGRC) as the Lead Investor to develop the project. As Uganda prepares to become an oil and gas producer, the main focus has been on developing the required local capacity and skills to work in the oil sector.
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 –
The Lead investor of the Uganda oil refinery project, Russian firm RT Global Resources has opted out of the deal during the negotiation process. RT Global resources was announced the preferred bidder for financing and construction of the $4 billion facility in Hoima in February 2015. The consortium of companies that won the contract to
By Dickens Kamugisha… Late last month, a decision on the route Uganda’s crude oil export pipeline will take was agreed upon between Uganda and Tanzania. However, given that the decision was made by the government without our participation as citizens, we must quickly come together to discuss the consequences of such secretive decisions. Available evidence
The contract of the multi-million dollar Kenya-Uganda pipeline project which expected to cover 1,500km is set to be announced before the end of this year. The construction project has been incorporated into the Lamu Port- South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor(Lapsset) infrastructure project. The Lapsset Corridor Development Authority (LCDA) confirmed the reports and said that the tender
The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development in Uganda has selected a Danish consultancy firm Ramboll to conduct an early-phase study for the Refined Petroleum Products Pipeline. The proposed refined products pipeline will run the refinery point in Hoima to an assembly point in Buloba near Kampala. Ramboll won the project in joint partnership with
In a bid to fast track the commercialization of oil and gas, Uganda has widened its infrastructure scope to include a speedy construction process of an air field in the Albertine graben in the new financial year 2015/2016. The revelations were made by Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic development Hon Matia Kasaija during the presentation
The construction of Uganda’s oil refinery in the western district of Hoima and the 205 kilometer pipeline that will carry processed gas products to the prospective assembly point in Buloba, 14 kilometers out of Kampala will take close to five years, the contractor confirmed last week. Speaking at the Uganda Oil and gas convention, Andrey
If the total worth of Uganda’s oil was to be divided into 100 shares, Bunyoro would be entitled to only less than a share of that worth. Not that it deserves anything more or less. It’s what the (soon to be enacted) law stipulates and going by Austin’s theory, the law is the law. It
In a recently completed World Bank study one of the key messages that the world bank sends out to Uganda Oil and Gas industry stakeholders is to build the country’s private sector. The study titled: “Leveraging Oil and Gas Industry for the Development of a Competitive Private Sector in Uganda” emphasizes that Uganda’s private sector