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Thursday, January 25, 2024
Ruth Nankabirwa, Uganda’s Minister of Energy and Mineral Development laid out progress in Uganda’s four existing major oil and gas projects. Two are upstream projects that include production fields in the west of Uganda, the larger one known as Tilenga and a smaller one Kingfisher, and two are midstream projects, the Hoima refinery and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline for shipping crude to the Indian Ocean coastline for export.
“Transitioning from strategic planning to practical implementation, we are advancing four major oil and gas projects: the Tilenga and Kingfisher projects in the Upstream ($6-8 Billion) and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) ($5 Billion), and the Uganda Refinery ($4 Billion) Projects in the Midstream. These projects, combined with the Government’s investment in supportive infrastructure, signify an investment of approximately $20 Billion in Uganda’s economy.”
With Tilenga and Kingfisher expected to produce respectively 190,000 and 40,000 barrels of crude oil daily at peak production, Min Nankabirwa also said other exploration licenses in the western basin where the two existing projects are based, as well as other basins in the center and east of the country could lead to higher daily production levels as the country matures as an oil producer.
Min Nankabirwa said infrastructure at the Kingfisher development area, one of the two major production areas already licensed, is well ahead of schedule having reached 21% progress last month rather than the planned 17 %.
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