Transport Charity Asks for Donation of Second Hand Freight Trucks to train Ugandan drivers for the oil and gas sector

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

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Work on Buliisa oil industrial area begins

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 –

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Uganda looks to China to finance it’s oil production

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

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‘Ugandans not prepared for oil opportunities’

Workshops have been held to this effect, papers have been presented, but it seems very little headway is being made on the ground, if we are to go by the sentiments of Stan McBride, the Environment Manager of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline project. How can Ugandans position themselves to benefit from the opportunities

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