The former Finance Minister of Finance, and past Makerere University Chancellor says he was the brainchild of the PDM 18 years ago but it was shelved until recently, and that now it is being rushed
The Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa and other officials have been meeting their counterparts in Kenya for new talks on the extension of the pipeline to the border.
The government has only the fuel reserves in Jinja which have a capacity of just over 10 million litres of diesel and about 20 million for petrol, yet the country's consumption is estimated at almost 7 million litres per day.
At least 300 kilometers of pipes have already been delivered in Dar es Salaam, as the actual laying of the pipeline commences next month is according to Minister Ruth Nankabirwa
It follows a meeting between Kenya’s President, Dr. William Ruto, and Dr. Ruth Nankabira Ssentamu, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development in Nairobi on Monday. The meeting resolved loggerheads after Uganda was denied usage of the Kenya Pipeline Company – KPC facility to move its refined petroleum products from Mombasa Port.
TotalEnergies EP Uganda is investing about 9 billion shillings over three years in the Industrial Enhance Centre to ready SMEs for jobs and contracts in oil and gas sector.
Bateebe confirmed that several areas in the Albertine Graben have been earmarked for exploration and will be announced for the third competitive bidding.
According to Enanga, five thugs intercepted the truck around 9 p.m. enroute to Kampala and placed the driver at gunpoint. The truck was transporting 34 tons of kerosene from Kenya to the Prompet Energies Ltd depot in Kampala.
On Monday morning, however, some Shell Stations quoted a liter of petrol at 5,410 Shillings while others smaller and newer marketers put it at 5,100, an increase of 600 Shillings in a month.
The facility donated by TotalEnergies EP will provide specialized emergency medical skills training to strengthen preparedness and ability of medical personnel to respond to health emergencies.
The Fuel Marking and Quality Monitoring Program is implemented under a cooperative arrangement between the Uganda National Bureau of Standards - UNBS and the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development to control and monitor the quality of petroleum products in Uganda’s entire supply chain.
The 47-page document titled, "Our Trust is Broken”: Loss of Land and Livelihoods for Oil Development in Uganda, says the Tilenga oil fields in Western Uganda and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) have affected the livelihoods of 100,000 people.
The TotalEnergies support will also enable them to implement the ‘smart management plan’ where protection and surveillance activities will be supported by digital technology.
Rev Frank Tukwasibwe, the Commissioner of Petroleum Supply at the Ministry says that this is from surveys done around the 4,189 fuel stations that are in the ministry's database.
Peter Muliisa, the Head of Legal at the Uganda National Oil Company, says it is wrong for the proponents of the transition to isolate oil and gas companies from the discussions as it happened at the Conference of Parties on climate protection (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland.
The two-and-a-half-year training course will start at the Uganda Petroleum Institute, Kigumba (UPIK), while other stages will lead the trainees to institutions and TotalEnergies installations in France and other countries.
