Uganda, shining a light through Pee Power
Urine has proved a useful fuel to power lighting in rural Africa.
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Chinese to take slice of Tullow’s Uganda farm down
Chinese firm Cnooc will take a slice of the Ugandan assets Tullow Oil is selling to Total.
Total makes Tullow Oil acquistion for $900million
Total confirmed it would acquire part of Tullow Oil's stake in an Ugandan project for $900million.
Oil firms including Sinopec express interest in Ugandan oil refinery
Oil firms including China's Sinopec have expressed an interest in developing Uganda's planned oil refinery.
Tullow, Total’s Uganda oil exports face delays on infrastructure
Output from Ugandan crude deposits being developed by companies including Tullow Oil Plc and Total SA is unlikely to be exported as soon as the nation expects because of the scale of the infrastructure projects required to transport the fuel out of the country.
Tullow and Total scoop up eight Ugandan licences
Uganda has shared out eight production licences between Tullow Oil and France’s Total, a news report said today.
Uganda offers $4bn refinery project to Korea-led group
Uganda’s government invited a group of companies led by SK Engineering & Construction Co. of South Korea to begin negotiations to build an oil refinery as it suspended a deal with a rival Russian company.
Groups call on Ugandan government to abandon oil exploration plans
Groups including Greenpeace and London Zoo have called on the Ugandan government to abandon plans to search for oil beneath Lake Edward.
Crude below $50 throws East Africa’s oil projects into doubt
Kenya and Uganda ended months of debate in August to sign an agreement on an oil pipeline costing almost $4 billion. Finding the money to build it and companies to start pumping crude may be a harder task. The 1,500-kilometer (930-mile) pipeline is key for exporting the region’s crude when production finally begins -- 2018 in Uganda’s case. With oil prices languishing below $50 a barrel, there’s little incentive for companies such as Tullow Oil Plc, Africa Oil Corp., China’s CNOOC Ltd. and France’s Total SA to keep investing. “The lower oil price has created a great deal more of uncertainty around future oil production, given that additional capital expenditure will be required to make oil production a reality,” Razia Khan, head of Africa economic research at Standard Chartered Plc in London, said in an e-mailed response to questions.
Tullow resumes production from Jubilee field
Tullow Oil has resumed gas exports from its flagship Jubilee field in Ghana earlier than expected.
Ugandan police block politicians from presidential campaigns
Ugandan police blocked opposition leader Kizza Besigye from leaving his home and arrested former Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi as they prepared to start their presidential election campaigns, their parties said. Besigye, who lost three previous elections to President Yoweri Museveni, was detained after attempting to leave his home to attend a rally to campaign as a candidate for the Forum for Democratic Change, his driver Asuman Semakula said by phone. Besigye, 59, is competing against party President Mugisha Muntu to run in the 2016 poll.
Total in Ugandan tax dispute
Total is seeking international arbitration regarding a tax disagreement with Uganda. The debate could delay oil production in the east African country further. In 2006 the country struck hydrocarbon deposits along its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country’s crude reserves are estimated to be around 6.5billion barrels by government geologists.
Tullow and partners to invest $14 Billion in Uganda oil fields
Tullow Oil Plc, Total SA and Cnooc Ltd. are set to invest almost $14 billion developing oil fields in Uganda, according to Jimmy Mugerwa, general manager of Tullow’s operations there. “With the partner companies, we are looking at $8 to $10 billion for the upstream and $3 to $4 billion when we start the pipeline construction,” Mugerwa said in an interview Thursday in Kigali, the capital of neighboring Rwanda.
Ugandan Government awards $4billion oil refinery project to RT Global Resources
Uganda has awarded a $4billion oil refinery project to a consortium led by RT Global Resources, which is owned by Russia’s Rostec. The government and RT will negotiate the terms of a joint venture to engineer and finance the $2.5billion refinery plus a product pipeline and associated infrastructure. The country struck hydrocarbon deposits in 2006 but commercial production was delayed and is not expected to start until 2018 at the earliest.