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
By Brian Kalule…. In his 2016/2017 Budget Speech delivered in June 2016, Finance Minister nominee Matia Kasaijja noted that the 2014 National Population Census stated that access to electricity had more than doubled (from 7,8% to 20,4%) in Uganda since 2002. Kasaijia said that it was the government’s objective to once again double access to
King Emere Godwin Bebe Okpabi holds up a plastic bottle containing contaminated water from his community in Nigeria, proof of oil pollution that he blames on Royal Dutch Shell — and on which he hopes a London court will deliver justice. “My people are drinking this water,” said the tribal king of the Ogale community
The Director General and CEO of Lapsset Corridor Development Authority Silvester Kasuku is expected to deliver a detailed update of the project in the upcoming East Africa Oil & Gas Summit (EAOGS), the the organizer said. “We are delighted to have the support of Kasuku and his team at the LCDA. The work that the
Oil pipelines planned in Kenya and Uganda to ferry crude from fields to port present opportunities for private financiers keen to gain a foothold in East Africa’s energy industry, the African Development Bank says. “Nobody has ever, ever lost money financing pipelines,” Gabriel Negatu, the Abidjan-based lender’s regional director for East Africa, told Bloomberg in
Kenya’s fight to hold on to potentially lucrative Indian Ocean oil and gas reserves, threatened by a maritime border spat with Somalia started at the UN’s top court in The Hague. The hearings, which are ongoing for a week are the first stage in Kenya’s battle against a 2014 claim by Somalia for the redrawing
The Executive Director of The Petroleum Authority of Uganda Ernest Rubondo urged Ugandan local service providers to take up opportunities in oil explorations set to start in the country soonest. Speaking at a dinner organised by Oil and Gas service providers in Kampala, Rubondo said the new oil exploration works presents opportunities worth trillions of
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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
Nearly four months after the initial release of the Panama Papers, investigations into the use of offshore accounts to channel illegal funds have now revealed a large-scale network of offshore deals that took place across Africa. Many of these deals expose misuse of corporate power towards paying exorbitant bribes to win control of natural resources