Oil Refinery
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
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
$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.
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
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
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)
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
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