Oil & Gas

Total E&P Uganda, the lead company on the Tilenga and EACOP Projects Thursday unveiled the first batch of welding students to be trained as part of the welders training programme launched earlier this year. The welders form the 1st batch of 25 out of the 200 students targeted for this

Local suppliers are likely to earn over 150 billion shillings from supply of goods and services to the oil and gas sector in 2018. Petroleum Authority Executive Director, Dr Earnest Rubondo confirms that the Authority approved work programmes for local companies to the tune of $400m (Shs1.5 trillion) for the

South Sudan has announced that it will resume pumping oil next month in areas where it was suspended in 2013 because of the civil war. Production is expected to return to its normal average of 375,000 barrels per day in three years, with an anticipated 210,000 barrels by the end

By Peter Abaanabasazi Homa The Uganda National Oil Company-UNOC has urged Ugandan investors to prepare and take advantage of opportunities in the oil and gas industry. UNOC is a state own company established under section 42 of the petroleum Act 2013 mandated  to handle the State’s commercial interests in the

Tanzania wants to build a pipeline to pump natural gas to neighbouring Uganda, another step in the two countries’ bid to expand energy cooperation, Business Daily reports. State-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) said on Monday that the pipeline would start from its capital Dar es Salaam, then pass through

By Peter Abaanabasazi Land wrangles and court cases are the major obstacles affecting the progress for the tarmacking of the 100 kilometer Kabwoya-Kyenjojo oil road project funded by world Banks. Government in 2015 contracted Shengli Engineering Construction Co. Limited, a Chinese construction firm to tarmac the road at a cost

By Reuters and Macharia Kamau Tullow Oil has stopped work at its Kenyan oilfield and halted trucking operations due to security issues, Chief Executive Paul McDade told Reuters on Wednesday. Tullow is aiming for a final investment decision on its $2.9 billion project in late 2019, which would open up