Continental Focus, International Reach

Uganda/Kenya Pipeline Design Gig Goes to Toyota Tsusho

Thursday, November 27, 2014

New developments have been seen on the proposed pipeline from Uganda to Kenya with the awarding of a design contract. Japan’s Toyota Tsusho won the design contract for the oil export pipeline that will take Ugandan crude to the Kenyan coast.

Crude production from Uganda is expected in 2018.

Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda opened a tender for bids for a consultant to oversee a feasibility study and initial design for the construction of the 1,300-km pipeline.

“Toyota Tsusho have already been awarded the contract for the feasibility study and preliminary engineering design, their final report is expected by mid-April next year,” Joseph Njoroge, the energy ministry’s principal secretary said in a Reuters report.

The pipeline designer will also supervise the construction of a fiber optic cable from Uganda’s oil fields in Hoima through the Lokichar basin in northwest Kenya, where Tullow Oil and Africa Oil have made discoveries, to Kenya’s proposed Lamu port.

The consultant is also expected to design tank terminals in Hoima, Lokichar and Lamu, the ministry said.


« GO BACK