Oil & Gas

President Yoweri Museveni has challenged Western companies to take interest in helping Africa explore its resources potential, saying the continent presents immense business opportunities. "There is a lot of sleeping in Africa. You find people who should know but instead don't know," said the President. "And also there has been

By Aloysious Kasoma Uganda is in the final stages of constructing the oil pipeline, but has a deficit of 1,500 qualified welders to handle the project. These are required to fulfill the local content laws. The required welders must have an American Welder’s Certificate and a wealth of experience. The

By Peter Abaanabasazi The government of Uganda has held a crisis meeting with key oil contractors to avert an impending oil curse. This follows public outcry from locals in Bunyoro region, the host of various oil related activities that they are being denied jobs by companies executing oil related works.

Uganda risks losing trillions of shillings in recoverable costs to oil companies, says Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC). This is a result of Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development’s failure to demand oil reports from the oil companies. The committee members while meeting the officials from Energy Ministry led by

Fuel pump prices have already hit the Shs4,000 mark in some parts of the country, a development that has seen many Ugandans ask why the sudden rise. Against the above background, on 31st January, 2018, Mohammed Nsereko, the Kampala Central MP raised concern on the floor of Parliament over the

There’s increasing uncertainty about the drilling and production of Uganda’s oil, with some locals in the oil-rich Bunyoro suspicious of the ongoing activities. On Wednesday, Dokolo Woman MP, Cecilia Ogwal, raising a matter of national importance regarding the revenue accruing from petroleum resources on the floor of Parliament, revealed that