French multinational integrated oil and gas company Total has since inauguration in 1924 secured a position among the supermajors. Supermajors is an industrial name used to refer to the six largest Oil and Gas Industry players. These six include; BP plc, Chevron Corporation, ExxonMobil Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell plc, Total, ConocoPhillips Company. Total started as Compagnie française
Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development on July 1, 2015 listed 19 companies that had expressed interest taking up licenses to explore for oil in the Albertine graben. However, analysts have asserted that the nation’s oil and gas sector has failed to attract leading multinationals in the oil and gas industry. According to the observer
Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has registered 17 companies for the Licensing Round for Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production of six blocks in the oil rich Albertine Graben. According to the Uganda Directorate of Petroleum , the Process of receiving the Request for Qualification ended on June 30, 2015. The Ministry registered seventeen valid applicants out
The African Development Bank has given fresh policy contributions and advice to new Oil producers on how to leverage oil, minerals and gas resources to improve human development and progress. The report that comes on a backdrop of research on national development policy frameworks in Africa, targets mainly East African states of Uganda, Kenya and
A World Bank pledge of a $ 600 million injection into the Uganda-Kenya gas pipeline construction deal went to the annals of history as among the major oil infrastructure investments in the region. As states in the East African Community (EAC) bloc move to tackle major economic challenges a head of integration, the oil and
Brian Sallery is an expert in the Oil and Gas Sector. He is an adviser to the Uganda National Bureau of Standards on Health and Safety Policies in Uganda’s Oil and Gas sector. He has worked with Statoil, written a column on Uganda’s Oil and Gas sector in the East African Business Week and is
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
Reuters Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park is bisected by the majestic Nile river and boasts some of Africa’s wildlife treasures – elephants, lions and a rare giraffe sub-species. Beneath it lies another natural prize: oil. Now French energy giant Total has begun surveys to prepare for seismic tests in the national park, one of
The Managing Editor of Oil in Uganda, a website on oil related developments in Uganda, Chris Byaruhanga has challenged the Uganda government to open up and embrace the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative. The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a global standard, where member governments declare income they earn from their extractive industries and
While a lot continues to be said about the oil that Uganda is yet to drill, little has been said about the potential of the Natural Gas Reserves that lie with the 3.5 million barrels of oil in the Albertine Region. It has been reported that for now, the Uganda government plans to use