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How the renewable energy industry can help solve Africa’s youth unemployment

Africa is on the verge of an unemployment crisis portending profound economic, political, and social ramifications. But the crisis can be averted, and one of the solutions may be as simple as turning on the lights
Blue solar panel boards
Energy, Oil & Gas

Excess electricity responsible for slight reduction in Q4 power prices

After recording their first increase of the year in the third quarter, power prices will fall by a small margin in the final three months of 2018 due to an energy generation excess, according to the regulator
Electricity Transformers
Energy, Oil & Gas

Cnooc, Uganda National Oil Company sign oil exploration agreement

The Uganda National Oil Company has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China National Offshore Oil Corporation to jointly explore oil in the Albertine oil region
Uganda National Oil Company chief executive, Josephine Wapakabulo with Cnooc officials in Beijing, China
Energy, Oil & Gas

Petroleum Authority of Uganda opens new oil suppliers registration

The Petroleum Authority of Uganda, the body charged with monitoring and regulating oil and gas activities, has opened the 2019 registration for the National Supplier Database. The exercise will commence formally on Saturday
Energy, Oil & Gas

Penspen, WorleyParsons favourites for oil pipeline supervision tender

UK’s Penspen and Australian based WorleyParsons are in the lead for the lucrative tender to “oversee” the East African Crude Oil Export Pipeline engineering, procurement and construction tender.
Map showing the East African Crude Oil Export Pipeline route.
Energy, Oil & Gas

Norwegians buy Uganda’s Bujagali hydropower dam

Norway’s SN Power has acquired a majority stake in the 250MW Bujagali Hydropower dam on the River Nile from an American private equity fund
Bujagali Hydropower dam
Energy, Oil & Gas

Tullow profit soars amid wait for Uganda farm-down approval

Tullow said it hopes the Uganda government will approve the farm-down of its assets by the end of this year, paving way for a final investment decision and the issuance of engineering, procurement and construction tenders for local oil fields
Kyehoro Camp operated by Tullow in Uganda
Energy, Oil & Gas

Bujagali refinancing lowers tariffs by $1.69 cents — minister

The junior energy minister says last month’s financial closure for debt refinancing of the Bujagali hydropower dam resulted in the reduction of end-user tariffs by 1.69 US cents (Shs62.89), from 9.61 US cents per kilowatt-hour to 7.91 US cents per kWh
Bujagali Hydropower dam
Energy, Oil & Gas

Weak shilling drives rise in energy prices, but not for extra-large industries

Power prices for the third quarter of this year have gone up slightly due to the shilling's weakness against the US dollar, a tariff schedule released by the Electricity Regulatory Authority shows
Electricity Transformers
Energy, Oil & Gas

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
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