Oil & Gas

December 1, 2025

Ruto: Uganda Will Hold Stake In Kenya Pipeline Company

President William Ruto says Uganda will jointly own shares in the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) once its ongoing privatization process is complete. The announcement was made during the groundbreaking ceremony for the Devki Group’s new steel plant in Tororo, Eastern Uganda, on November 23, 2025, where…

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November 4, 2025

TotalEnergies, World Vision Boost Education In Buliisa

Host communities of oil and mining projects in Uganda are legally entitled to benefits such as jobs, social services and community welfare improvements from investing companies. It is under such policies that TotalEnergies EP, in partnership with World Vision, constructed new and rehabilitated old c…

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November 4, 2025

Uganda Should Not Expect Much from COP30

By Guest Writer As global leaders prepare to convene for COP30 in Brazil, Uganda should temper its expectations. Despite years of climate negotiations, real commitments to reduce emissions, finance adaptation, and ensure climate justice for vulnerable nations have remained elusive. While these high-…

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October 24, 2025

Road To Uganda’s First Oil: Kingfisher Likely To Be Starting Point

For the next nine months, activities in Uganda’s oil fields will be ramped up as the country targets to get its first barrel of oil to the market through a 1,443km pipeline to the Tanzanian coast of Tanga by July 2026, more than 20 years after the first commercial discovery was made. There is growin…

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August 22, 2025

Public Service Commission Backs Ugandan Jobs In Oil Sector

The Public Service Commission (PSC) has conducted a Human Resource Audit in Uganda’s Albertine oil region as part of efforts to fast-track preparations for oil production, expected to commence in 2026. The audit, undertaken in partnership with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, assessed…

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July 2, 2025

Uganda To Decarbonize By Blending Its Petrol With Ethanol  

Fuel distributors in Uganda will soon start blending all petrol sold with 5% fuel-grade ethanol (E5), in a bid to “decarbonize the transport sector”. In subsequent years, the ethanol ratio will regularly be increased up to the 20% target set by the Biofuels Act 2020. Blended fuel refers to a mixture…

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June 29, 2025

TotalEnergies, SLB Donate Pricey Computing Systems To Uganda Universities

Students pursuing oil and gas studies at Makerere, Kyambogo and Nkumba universities have reason to smile following the donation of costly specialized education software and computer hardware by TotalEnergies EP Uganda and SLB, recently. TotalEnergies provided each institution eight computer hardware…

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June 7, 2025

DGR’s Kanywataba Oil License In Uganda Expires

Australia’s DGR Global Limited announced on Thursday that its exploration license for the Kanywataba oil block in Ntoroko district has expired, with the government of Uganda reclaiming the rights over the area. The company, which has no option of renewing the license after it exhausted the maximum e…

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April 3, 2025

Future Of Uganda’s Kanywataba, Turaco Oil Blocks Now Uncertain After Conjugate Energy Is Dissolved

Conjugate Energy Limited, the company that was registered in the United Kingdom in February 2023 to specifically hold the interests in the Kanywataba and Turaco oil exploration areas in Western Uganda, was dissolved on April 1, 2025 after financial woes plagued its parent company in Australia. The U…

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March 30, 2025

Uganda’s Refinery Project Taking Shape With Implementation Agreement Signing

Uganda’s oil refinery project has taken a major step towards becoming a reality following the signing the of the Implementation Agreement at State House Entebbe, in a ceremony presided over by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the main proponent of the project. A Ministry of Energy and Mineral Devel…

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March 29, 2025

EACOP Announces Major Financing Boost Involving African Banks

On Wednesday this week, EACOP Ltd, the company in charge of the construction and future operation of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), announced the closing of the first tranche of external financing for the project after more than three years of mobilizing the funds. This funding, a comp…

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February 28, 2025

Only Equity Financing Lined Up For Uganda’s Oil Refinery

After the trauma Uganda’s oil project has faced over the last couple of years as shareholder requests for loans for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) were swiftly turned down, the government has decided not to return to the debt market for its other project, the oil refinery. Instead, Ugan…

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