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Participants at the second quarter national content development suppliers workshop
Petroleum Authority of Uganda

Petroleum Authority urges local firms to form joint ventures to win oil and gas contracts

The Petroleum Authority of Uganda has urged local suppliers to consider forming joint ventures as a means of increasing their competitiveness in Uganda’s fast-growing oil and gas sector
Totalenergies ep uganda general manager philippe groueix, valerian pfrimmer, managing director for east and south africa at slb and other officials

TotalEnergies EP Uganda and SLB helping to improve the oil and gas training curriculum at universities in Uganda

TotalEnergies EP Uganda and SLB have today handed over specialised educational software and computer hardware to Makerere, Kyambogo and Nkumba universities, with the aim of enhancing their oil and gas training programmes
Lionel Zinsou is a French-Beninese economist and investment banker, and was the Prime Minister of Benin from 2015 to 2016. He has been hired by TotalEnergies to conduct a review of its land acquisition programme in Uganda and Tanzania for the Tilenga and oil pipeline projects. His review will assess land acquisition procedures, consultation conditions, compensation and resettlement of affected people, and grievance redress mechanisms. It will also assess the efforts made by TotalEnergies EP Uganda and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) to improve the livelihoods of those affected by the land acquisition.

TotalEnergies hires investment banker to review land acquisition for Uganda projects

TotalEnergies has appointed an economist and former prime minister of Benin to review its land acquisition programme in Uganda and Tanzania for the Tilenga and Pipeline projects
A group photo of oil company executives in Kampala, Uganda

Oil companies take final investment decision on Uganda projects

TotalEnergies, the French energy group, and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation have announced the long-awaited final investment decision for Uganda's oil projects, collectively referred to as the Lake Albert Development Project
A drilling rig at the Kingfisher field in Western Uganda

Uganda hopes for $10bn in investment as oil firms green light projects

Uganda expects investments worth about $20bn after Total Energies and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation make final investment decisions on their oil and gas projects. The final decisions will be announced on Tuesday
Three male executives at a press conference

Ugandan companies stand to win oil & gas contracts worth $167m

Uganda companies will be awarded contracts worth about $167m (Shs605.2bn) out of the $1.3bn tenders for the Tilenga and Kingfisher oil projects
Presidents Suluhu Hassan and Yoweri Museveni, seated

Uganda, Tanzania and Total sign off on pipeline project

Uganda, Tanzania, and Total S.A. on Sunday signed three agreements to finalise the development of an oil pipeline from Uganda's oil fields to Tanga on the Tanzanian coast
Map showing the East African Crude Oil Export Pipeline route.

Uganda hopeful of investment decision on oil projects as pipeline meeting is deferred

Uganda and Tanzania have postponed a high-profile meeting on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, initially scheduled for Monday, following the death of Tanzanian President John Magufuli
Uganda's energy minister, Mary Goretti Kituttu and Total's Nicolas Terraz signing the oil pipeline host government agreement

Government and Total sign key oil pipeline agreement

The Uganda government and Total, the French oil major, on Friday signed the host government agreement which will govern the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline project

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15 July 2020

Tullow Oil shareholders approve Uganda farmdown deal

Tullow Oil PLC shareholders on Wednesday voted to approve the sale of the company’s remaining 33.33% stake in Uganda’s oil fields and the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline

Kyehoro Camp operated by Tullow in Uganda
28 May 2020

Cnooc opts out of Tullow-Total deal

The China National Offshore Oil Corporation on Tuesday notified Tullow Oil Plc and Total SA that it will not acquire a stake in Tullow's assets in Uganda

A Tullow oil field in Ghana
30 April 2020

Industry experts see Total-Tullow deal a win-win boost

Regional analysts in the oil exploration and production sector have described last week’s sales and purchase agreement between Tullow Oil PLC and Total E&P Uganda as a 'win-win' boost for all players, and one that opens a new chapter for East Africa’s energy industry

A drilling rig at the Kingfisher field in Western Uganda
23 April 2020

Total E&P acquires Tullow Uganda’s stake for $575m

French oil major Total SA said on Thursday that is acquiring Tullow oil’s assets in Uganda's Lake Albert oil project for $575m (Shs2.1 trillion), with $500m to be paid once the deal has been approved by the government and $75m paid when a final investment decision has been reached

A drilling rig at a drilling site in Uganda
7 April 2020

Uganda and oil companies reach deal on Tullow farm-down

The Uganda government and the three joint venture partners in the Lake Albert oil project —Tullow Oil, Total E&P, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation —have reached a deal on the sale of Tullow's assets, this website can confirm

A drilling rig at the Kingfisher field in Western Uganda
4 September 2019

Total E&P freezes work on Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline

French oil major Total, the lead joint venture partner on Uganda's proposed crude oil export pipeline has frozen all activities on the multibillion-dollar project citing “uncertainty” over its Uganda operation

Map showing the East African Crude Oil Export Pipeline route.
29 August 2019

Stalemate over tax breaks down Tullow Oil stake sale

Tullow Oil is initiating a new sales process to reduce its 33.3% stake in Uganda's Lake Albert oil project after its planned $900 million sale to joint venture partners Total E&P and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation failed to get clearance

A drilling rig at the Kingfisher field in Western Uganda
11 February 2019

Total to fast-track Tilenga project this year

French oil major Total’s chief executive Patrick Pouyanné last week revealed his company’s plans to accelerate development of the company’s Tilenga project in Buliisa and Nwoya districts

A drilling rig at a drilling site in Uganda
6 December 2018

Journey to oil production mired in uncertainty as govt and oil firms haggle over pipeline

By now, Uganda, Tanzania and the oil companies active in the former's petroleum sector should have finalised negotiations on the development, construction, and operation of the Uganda-Tanzania crude oil pipeline

Map showing the East African Crude Oil Export Pipeline route.
27 June 2018

Cabinet approves national content policy for oil and gas sector

The cabinet on Monday approved the much awaited national content policy that is intended to promote the competitiveness of Ugandan labour and businesses in the petroleum sector

A drilling rig at a drilling site in Uganda