An agreement between Tullow Oil and two international oil companies to share the costs of developing a Ugandan oil field has been terminated, leaving Tullow to find new partners, Business Focus understands. It should be noted that on January 9, 2017, Total and Tullow entered into a Sale and Purchase
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In what has become a remarkable month for exploration in Africa, a CNPC-led consortium has made 300 million barrels of recoverable oil discovery in South Sudan’s northeastern Upper Nile state. It is almost as much as the Oyo Discovery announced earlier this month in Congo. The exploration well was drilled
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The recent onshore discovery made in the Delta de la Cuvette deposit in the Republic of Congo is a game changer for Congo and Africa. The discovery was announced on August 10th by SARPD Oil and PEPA, a Congolese consortium working as operators on the Block. Early projections indicate that
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Tullow Uganda Operations Pty Ltd Managing Director, Jimmy D. Mugerwa has been transferred to the Group’s head offices in London. It’s not yet clear what position he will hold but industry sources say he will Tullow’s regional boss while others say he will be the Group’s Director for Infrastructure and
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The Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) has unveiled Proscovia Nabbanja (in featured photo) as the Acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), replacing Dr. Josephine Wapakabulo, who quit the job for greener pastures. Wapakabulo will officially leave office tomorrow August 13, 2019, leaving Nabbanja to take full charge of the national oil
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The Uganda Law Society (ULS) has called upon the Government to ring fence legal services in the oil and gas sector, for the benefit of Ugandans. This was during a meeting between ULS and the Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU). Section 125 of the Petroleum (Exploration, Development and Production) Act2013
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Oil producer China National Offshore Oil Corp said on Thursday it had halted field work at its western Uganda project over an Ebola scare and would resume operations only after getting the green light from the health ministry. Uganda’s oilfields in the Albertine rift basin are a few miles from
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Hundreds of engineers and building contractors on Friday attended a conference about the opportunities in the oil and gas sector. The conference, organised by the Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) in partnership with other government agencies, was part of the efforts to prepare local firms for the development phase of
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Following a recent fear by Buliisa district residents that they will be relocated to a another place once oil and gas activities begin, the District L.C 5 Chairman Simon Kinene has assured the residents that there is no such arrangements by government. He adds that communities have been engaged with
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As Uganda moves to into the oil production stage, opportunities in the oil and gas sector investors can tap into is one of the hot topics. Agriculture, hospitality and tourism are among the sectors that have been tipped to tap into the opportunities oil and gas sector presents. Health sector
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