Uganda’s quest for more oil reaches Karamoja

[googlemap src=”http://” width=”500″ height=”360″ align=”alignleft” ]By Zakaria Tiberindwa and Edward Tumwiine  Uganda’s discovered oil reserves are estimated at 6.5 billion shillings and it is believed that if the oil is well utilized, the money from the resource could lift the country from a developing nation to middle-income status. However the country’s quest for more oil

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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

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Uganda to earn $50 Billion from discovered oil reserves

Uganda’s government should expect to earn $50 billion on behalf of its 35 million strong population from reserves already discovered over the lifetime of the oil fields, Tullow said – almost three years’ worth of its $17 billion gross domestic product (GDP).   Asked where the oil money might go, the Commissioner for Uganda’s Petroleum

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