Uganda/Tanzania: Export pipeline project launch


Issue 352 - 11 Aug 2017 | 3 minute read

On 5 August, presidents Yoweri Museveni and John Pombe Magufuli broke ground for a 1,445km export pipeline to carry Ugandan crude from Hoima to Tanzania’s Tanga port. The heated pipeline will be the longest of its kind in the world, and the governments have agreed that the $3.5bn project will be completed by 2020, though financing has yet to be secured.The 216,000 b/d buried pipeline, with six pumping stations and two pressure reduction stations, will be developed by upstream partners Total E&P, CNOOC and Tullow Oil together with the two governments.

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