Dr. Diana Atwine, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health (MoH) last week led a team from the Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) and the Ministry of Health and other key stakeholders in an assessment of the health facilities along the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) corridor. “The
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A delegation from the Ministry of Petroleum and Mines, Kenyahas completed a two-day benchmarking and familiarisation visit to the Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU), the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (MEMD) and the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC).The Government of Kenya is in the process of setting up a
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The Oil and Gas Trainers Association of Uganda that brings together all individuals, academic training institutions and the training service providers in the Oil and Gas sector from the Government and private sectors has been launched. While launching the association on Thursday at Protea Hotel, Alex Kakooza, the Permanent Secretary
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Stanbic Bank Uganda through its Business Incubator has entered in to a partnership with the Uganda National Oil Company to promote national content through capacity building through offering business training for entrepreneurs, knowledge/sector information sharing and enterprise development. Speaking during the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony, Stanbic Bank’s Chief
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Vivo Energy Uganda hopes to maintain its position as market leader in distributing world class fuel products. This vision was unveiled by the country's Managing Director, Gilbert Assi during a media breakfast held at the Kampala Serena Hotel on Thursday morning. Also in attendance, was Hans Paulsen, the Vivo Energy
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Uganda’s Petroleum Fund has some money in it, David Bahati, the State Minister for Planning has said. The Minister last week while appearing before the Finance Committee said that the Petroleum Fund had been depleted and there was no money that would be drawn from it to support the budget
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Tullow Oil has written off $800 million (UShs2.9 trillion) of its exploration costs in Kenya and Uganda after lowering its forecast for long-term crude oil prices, Business Daily reports. Oil firms recover their exploration costs over years once production and sale of the commodity start, with lower oil prices indicating
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The Auditor General, John Muwanga’s just released December 2019 audit report has exposed the rot in the management of the Petroleum Fund, with the AG confessing to have been locked out of the Fund by denying him vital information. Muwanga made the revelation this morning while handing over the Audit
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is forming a plan to take back two oil blocks from sanctioned Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler and sell them to another company.The Congolese government has talked to Tullow Oil Plc about purchasing a stake in the Lake Albert licenses along the country’s border with Uganda, said four
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Farmers living along East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) have been advised to standardize their products to meet international standards. This was revealed by Mr. Ernest Rubondo, the Executive Director of the Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) at a Farmers Conference held recently in Hoima District. The farmers were also
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