Over the last one year Uganda Wildlife Authority has trained and recruited 430 new rangers with the chief mandate of monitoring oil activities and fighting poaching in the gazetted areas of UWA. The President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni commissioned the youthful rangers in April 2013 following a four month training that they had undergone.
How the wax in the crude impedes the crude pipeline option for Uganda
In 2011, the government of Uganda undertook a feasibility study on building a Greenfield oil refinery which Swiss Engineering firm Foster Wheeler Energy Limited conducted. The study recommended that a refinery was commercially viable for Uganda given its benefits to citizens compared to building 1350 Km long crude export pipeline to Mombasa. The study further
Experts warn against multiple refineries in East Africa, say they are a waste of oil resources
With the discovery of oil in Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan surely East Africans are right to look forward to an “oil bonanza” that is expected to lift millions of East Africans out of poverty but the experts think that with the way the East African countries have decided to deal with their oil, the
Government to build oil terminal in Wakiso
As government prepares for the construction of an oil refinery in Hoima district, plans to build a petroleum distribution terminal at Buloba, outside Kampala, have been mooted. Irene Batebe, a petroleum officer in charge of refining at the Petroleum Exploration and Production department (PEDP), told journalists recently that a pipeline from the refinery would
Oil draws Hoima farmers into growing vegetables
The prospect of a ready market for fresh produce in the oil camps has turned out to be a huge motivation for farmers in Hoima District to start up horticultural projects. Once a no-go area for farmers in Bunyoro, it interesting to learn that now some farmers have abandoned the popular farming areas like rice
Hoima to get science university
The government is set to establish a science university in Hoima district to train oil and gas related academic disciplines. This is a rare gesture that will go a long way in convincing some hardliners in the Bunyoro sub- region that the government is committed to ensuring that locals in the Albertine Graben benefit from
The refinery to create more jobs than a crude pipeline would have managed, says Oil Study
The refinery that Uganda plans to build is likely to create “significantly more jobs” for Ugandans than a crude pipeline would have managed according to the Foster Wheeler refinery study in Uganda. The report says that the construction of a refinery o.r a pipeline will increase the skills based in the region and lead to
Tullow boss slams legislators over “unrealistic” local content provision in Oil and Gas law
The President of Tullow Oil’s Ugandan subsidiary, Hon. Elly Karuhanga had no kind words for parliament over a local content provision in the recently enacted Petroleum Exploration Development and Production Act 2013 that allows local businessmen to enter joint ventures with international firms servicing the oil and gas industry. The section of the Act
Oil bonds Uganda and Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka has pledged closer ties with Uganda and one of the reasons that the Sri Lankan minister of foreign affairs, Professor G.L. Peiris gave for the need for closer ties between the two countries was the fact that Sri Lanka and Uganda were faced with similar challenges especially in their oil and gas sectors.
Why Museveni insisted on Uganda building its own refinery
The storms had been raging, with those that can write, articulate and analyze penning all sorts of speculation on whether Uganda would eventually build a refinery but what emerged was Museveni sticking to his guns and it seems he is now having the last laugh. The oil companies have had to buckle under his rigid