The Executive Director of the National Environmental Management Authority, Dr. Tom Okurut has said environmental management is a key factor in the development of Uganda’s Oil and Gas Sector, Resource Management and Financial Management being the other key elements in the sector. While speaking at 1st Petroleum Industry Environmental Management Conference held at Speke Resort
Zambia picks interest in Uganda’s oil refinery
Zambia wants more information about Uganda’s plans to build a 60,000-bpd oil refinery that’s already attracted interest from four regional neighbors. The southern African country “has asked for more information” about the plant, Ugandan Energy Minister Irene Muloni says. Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi have expressed interest, she says. “Each of the countries will be offered
UN Women and Publish What You Pay launch gender toolkit that seeks to empower women in the extractives sector
UN Women and Publish What You Pay (PWYP), a global coalition campaigning for an open extractive sector have launched a toolkit “Extracting Equality – A Guide”, which examines how to approach the issue of gender within the extractive sector. Written by PWYP and UN Women, along with experts working on gender and the extractives worldwide, the
Bunyoro Kitara Royal University: a community university seeking for leverage in Oil and Gas Management Training
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
In this little-known village of Kyapaloni, we have just arrived in the trading centre and the boys or should we say the young men are playing cards. It‘s few minutes past noon, people should be somewhere in the garden digging but who cares about digging any more, not in this village. Kyapaloni is a village
Women’s rights in the oil sector go beyond land rights- Activist tells government
In an article published in the Newvision the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development Mary Karooro Okurut was concerned that there is a total disregard of women in the compensation process for land identified for roads, drillings sites and the oil refinery in the Albertine Graben. However, Betty Akol the Assistant Projects Officer of
Oil to raise Uganda’s economic growth rate to 7%
Investment from oil explorers and expansion in the services sector will be key factors in steering Uganda’s economy to a percentage growth rate of 7% per year in three to five years’ to come. The Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Maria Kiwanuka says this is up from a projection of 6% made earlier
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