Oil Refinery

Energy, Oil & Gas

How American consortium won refinery deal despite resistance from energy officials

Ugandan officials seemed to have a vested interest in who should be awarded the contract to build the country's oil refinery, preferring Chinese companies over the eventual winner, America's Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium
Officials and Uganda's president after the signing of a contract with the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium to finance and construct Uganda’s first oil refinery
Energy, Oil & Gas

Unoc benchmarking with external peers for best performance – Wapakhabulo

The Uganda National Oil Company chief executive, Josephine Wapakhabulo, has allayed fears that the oil company is trying to ‘bite more than it can chew’ with the dozen capital-intensive upstream and midstream projects on its to-do list
Energy, Oil & Gas

$1b US exports in Uganda refinery deal raises eyebrows

Uganda’s Greenfield oil refinery will cost at least $2.85b (approx Shs10trillion) of which $1b (Shs3.6trillion) will go back to the United States in export content, the Department of Commerce has revealed.
Energy, Oil & Gas

General Electric-led consortium signs refinery deal, upsetting energy officials

The government has signed a project framework agreement with the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium to finance and construct Uganda's first oil refinery; the deal has left officials in the energy ministry upset
Energy, Oil & Gas

America’s General Electric and Italy’s Saipem given nod on refinery tender

America’s General Electric (GE) and Italy’s Saipem SpA from Italy will likely build Uganda’s proposed oil refinery in Hoima district after a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday evening cleared the two companies for the $4bn tender
Energy, Oil & Gas

Uganda sets equity in crude oil refinery and pipeline projects at $700m

The two large-scale projects are expected to cost a combined $7.5bn (Shs26 trillion)
Energy, Oil & Gas

Uganda seeks to join OPEC

Energy ministry Irene Muloni has expressed the government’s wish to join the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries as a full member so Uganda can tap into benefits like the stabilisation of crude oil prices
Energy, Oil & Gas

Stanbic Bank and British High Commission host UK oil and gas delegation

Stanbic Bank Uganda, in partnership with the Energy Industries Council EIC, and the British High Commission on Tuesday hosted a high-powered trade delegation from the UK
Politics & Policy

Tanzania’s Magufuli wants oil pipeline completed in less than three years

Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli has urged French oil major Total E&P, the lead joint venture partner on the proposed crude oil export pipeline from Hoima to Tanga, and other investors involved to mobilise at least “10 contractors” to speed up construction before 2020
Energy, Oil & Gas

UK Export Finance to provide $350m credit for oil airport

A cabinet sitting two weeks ago approved the loan request by the ministry of finance to borrow money to construct the airport
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