Although commercially viable oil deposits were recently confirmed in Uganda’s Albertine Graben, the search for oil the country has been ongoing for over nine decades. Many people in the areas of Butyaba, Kibiro, Bulisa and Panymuro have for long known about the existence of oil which could be seen on some spots or oil soils
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Energy and Infrastructure key development priorities since 1986 2020: The expected oil jobs are here The oil and gas sector is finally coming to the take-off stage. With the Final Investment Decision (FID) for the oil pipeline project expected this first quarter of 2020 (between now and March), what is on the minds of several
Prisoners in Osio in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo have, for an undisclosed period, been working in an illegal mine underneath a prison to extract diamonds. The illegal mine was only discovered recently after authorities raided the site. Prison officers and local people had before the raid set up temporary accommodation nearby to work
By Mbatau wa Ngai The expected refining of Kenya’s crude oil at Kenya Oil Refineries is a game changer for several reasons. First, the fact that Yoweri Museveni Government has until now been unable to persuade the UK-based oil and gas exploration company, Tullow Oil, to build a refinery in Uganda might leave the country
The director of an oil project in Ghana says that three offshore fields are expected to produce their first oil this week. Terry Hughes, director of the Tweneboa, Enyema and Ntomme fields known as TEN, said the fields off the country’s western coast have an estimated reserve of 300 million barrels over 20 years. He
Kenya’s government says it has approved a plan to produce between 2,000 and 4,000 barrels a day of crude oil in an effort to exploit the country’s oil production potential. A statement from the president’s communications department said that infrastructure will be upgraded to allow trucks to ferry the oil to the country’s main port
In 2006, Uganda discovered an oil field that is now locally known as the Kingfisher Oil Field. Plans for extracting oil were delayed due to several reasons, but one of the biggest obstacles that the government faced was access to the site. The oil field can only be approached by helicopter or on water, making it difficult for
Speculative media reports coming from Kenya say the country is in preparation to pump its Oil deposits from Lokichar valley to the International market in early 2016. According to Oil News Kenya, the nation’s leadership has reached significant discussions on the issue with the latest being using road transport means as the nation awaits the
Japan’s Toyota Tsusho has won a contract to design an oil export pipeline from Uganda to Kenya’s coast, a Kenyan official says. According to Joseph Njoroge, the Kenya Energy Ministry’s principal secretary, Toyota Tsusho, the company awarded the contract for the feasibility study and preliminary engineering design must submit their report within the next five