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Uganda-Tanzania Summit Geared Towards Boosting Uganda Oil Sector

  • 22 Aug 2018
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 Uganda-Tanzania are set for a second Joint Permanent Commission (JPC) Ministerial meeting and it will take place from 21 – 23 August 2018 at Speke Resort Munyonyo. The JPC is aimed at enhancing and consolidating bilateral cooperation frameworks between the two countries among which the natural gas pipeline from Tanzania to Uganda to process iron ore

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Uganda’s 2017 National Suppliers’ Oil and Gas Database unveiled

  • 23 Jul 2017
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Uganda’s oil and gas industry has last week got a boost by unveiling the first ever National Suppliers Database of more than 290 approved firms to supply goods and services. According to the Independent Newspaper, The companies can now be accessed on the Petroleum Authority of Uganda’s website www.pau.go.ug. The move is in fulfillment of

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Cultural institutions strife: It’s not about monarchies but control over natural resources

  • 11 Mar 2015
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By Muhindo James A day after police made public a plot to poison the King of the Great Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom, Omukama Solomon Iguru Gafabusa, I was astonished to read a pronouncement by Prince David Kijanangoma of Tooro in light of his resolution to over throw Tooro Kingdom’s youthful Monarch, Omukama Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru.

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Uganda cabinet approves first open- bid licensing round for Petroleum Exploration

  • 9 Feb 2015
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Cabinet has approved plans to open up six blocks in the Albertine Graben for licensing in the country’s first competitive bidding round. State Minister for Energy, Eng. Simon D’ujanga, informed parliament last week that preparations for this bidding round commenced after the new law was put in place and were now culminating with the submission

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Some quick facts about the oil discoveries and resources in Uganda

  • 5 Feb 2015
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When every one is talking about Oil in Uganda, these facts should be on our finger tips and any person who has interest in this sector may already know this but well, we thought sharing this may help someone out there who has no clue about the sector. Twenty one (21) oil and/or gas discoveries

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Boost private sector to maximize oil and gas benefits, World Bank tells government

  • 29 Jan 2015
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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

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A call for consultants to do a feasibility study on enterprise development in the Albertine Region

  • 18 Dec 2014
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Living Earth Uganda, a natural resources and environmental management NGO in Uganda is looking for organizations or individuals, with the experience and skills to undertake a feasibility and scoping study for enterprise development in rural communities. This duty is part of LEU’s broader Jobs and Oil project aiming at making oil work for poor people

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Why Tullow Oil PLC is cutting expenditure elsewhere and focusing on exploration in East Africa

  • 17 Nov 2014
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Amid-st the turbulent rage of the faltering oil prices Tullow Oil PLC has resolved to revise its investment priorities and focus on East Africa and Ghana in West Africa come 2015. In an Interim Management Statement issued on 12th November 2015 Tullow indicated that though exploration will remain a key part of the company’s future

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Women’s rights in the oil sector go beyond land rights- Activist tells government

  • 28 Oct 2014
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In an article published in the Newvision the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development Mary Karooro Okurut was concerned that there is a total disregard of women in the compensation process for land identified for roads, drillings sites and the oil refinery in the Albertine Graben. However, Betty Akol the Assistant Projects Officer of

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Museveni’s attitude on rights of mineral-rich land owners depicts a colonial kind of mentality

  • 28 Oct 2014
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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

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