By Edward Ronald Segyawa and Frank Mulder…. The heavily criticized legal mechanism, known as ISDS, is an important tool for European companies to pressurize developing countries. This year Uganda joins the rank of developing nations asking themselves: “Why have we ever signed this?” Earlier this year, the French oil company Total filed a request for
Uganda Prime Minister ask investors for cooperation in development of Oil Sector
Uganda Prime Minister Dr. Ruhakana Rugunda asked investors and major stakeholders in the country’s Oil and gas sector to work together in order to expedite the development of the sector. The Premier made the remarks at the joint meeting of the Policy Coordination Committee and the Oil and gas Technical working group. The two Policy
Uganda’s unending oil tax disputes: will URA survive another Total Disaster
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he tax dispute between Total E&P Uganda is just another in a series of Tax Disputes that the Uganda Revenue Authority has had to deal with in the past 5 years. The good news is that so far Uganda’s Tax body has always come out victorious and most remarkably in the Heritage case in which
Total embarks on comprehensive resettlement plan in Albertine Graben
Total in conjunction with Tullow Uganda Operations PTY Ltd have issued an invitation to contractors to carry out a comprehensive Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for the oil and gas development project in Nwoya, Buliisa, Masindi, and Hoima districts in the Lake Albert Basin. Total is the operator of Exploration Area 1 and 1A in Uganda
The 2012 Oil Contracts: a good financial deal for Ugandans but without human rights and environmental safeguards
The Government of Uganda achieved a better deal, at least in the financial sense, for its oil in the Production Sharing Agreements that the government signed in 2012. The terms of the 2012 agreement are far more financially beneficial to Uganda compared to the agreements made before 2008, a report by Global Witness, an Oil
Why Uganda’s concession to the regional pipeline project is good news to South Sudan
South Sudan must have been waiting with bated breath or should we say eavesdropping on the conversations between Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda that have been the centre of media attention this week. The President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has been hosting his colleagues Uhuru Kenyatta, the Kenyan President and Paul Kagame, the President of
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Build a career as an Oil and Gas Installation Engineer with Total
The Oil and Gas sector is a dynamic sector in which versatility is a necessary ingredient. That is why Total finds it important to train Oil and Gas Installation Engineers. The Oil & Gas Installation Engineer provides an access point to a wide range of very different but complementary professions: Process, Exploitation (Production, Maintenance &
Uganda Revenue Authority compliance campaign spreads to extractives sector
It is arguably the next industry that every Ugandan is observing; and for Uganda Revenue Authority, the mining and quarrying industry is one to court. In a stakeholders’ engagement held at Silver Springs hotel in Bugolobi, Patrick Mukiibi, the Commissioner Tax Investigations, noted that the engagement was organised to educate the participants from the
Members of Parliament up in arms against government agreements with Tullow Oil
Members of Parliament are threatening legal action against the government and oil company Tullow oil for going against the Parliament resolution halting activities in the oil sector pending a new law and investigations into the sector. The government and Tullow Oil Company today signed two production sharing agreements and one production license to operate three