The long-awaited works on taking Uganda’s crude oil to export markets started yesterday Saturday August 5, 2017 with President Yoweri Museveni and his Tanzanian counterpart Joseph Pombe Magufuli commissioning the construction of the 1,445km-long East African crude oil pipe line from Hoima district in Uganda to the Tanzanian port of Tanga. President Museveni arrived in
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
TOTAL C.E.O CHRISTOPHE DE MARGERIE DIES IN PLANE CRASH
Christophe de Margerie, CEO of French oil giant Total was killed Monday night when the business jet he was flying in crashed upon takeoff at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow. In addition to De Margerie, 63, four others perished in the accident, including three crew members and the driver of a snow removal machine with which the
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
Oil hunt in Ugandan national park tests Africa’s eco defences
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