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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On 15th September 2014 Bunyoro Kitara Royal University opened its gates to its first lot of students. The University whose campus lies along Rukurato Road neighbours Karuzika the King’s Palace in Hoima and stands just opposite Hoima Public Library. From the conception of existence, the essence of Bunyoro Kitara Royal University has always been embedded
Refinery site residents abandon farming as they await oil compensation money
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Museveni’s attitude on rights of mineral-rich land owners depicts a colonial kind of mentality
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
Is oil giving Hoima a new lease of life? Tracing the changing face of Uganda’s “Oil City”
On the Journey to Hoima It’s 4:00pm and I am boarding a commuter taxi to Hoima. It’s not the first time I am travelling to Hoima and neither is it the last. The only difference today, I am not just travelling back home to check on my parents. I have to check on our oil
Methods of fighting oil fires
When drilling first started firefighters had to think of ways to contain the fire. The standard practice 80 years ago was to extinguish the blowout with an explosion of dynamite. A fire needs a source of fuel, heat and oxygen to survive and if any of these ingredients are missing the flame will die, therefore
Why Museveni won’t compensate mineral-rich land owners
In an article published by the Daily Monitor, on Thursday October 2, 2014, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said the government will change the law to allow intending investors in the mining industry to access private land that contains minerals without negotiating with the land owners. The President is quoted to have said “the
5 key aspects the government should consider before signing future oil contracts
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We need less of the oil excitement and more focus on agriculture
The discovery of oil is the kind of news that usually excites developing nations in many of which instances, the countries will focus on the prospective oil wealth as a potential trigger to the nation’s financial triumph. But for the beleaguered small-scale subsistence farmer who sits at the tail end of the social radar, such
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