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Tullow Oil’s sale of two-thirds of its Uganda assets to Total and CNOOC has finally been completed. The long-awaited $2.9bn deal, which was initially announced in 2010, follows the recent signing of new production- sharing agreements between Tullow and the government and the granting of the Kingfisher production licence (AE 225/1). It is expected that early small-scale oil and gas production for the local power market will start in 2013 from the Nzizi, Mputa and Waraga fields in the Kaiso-Tonya area, with the partners now anticipating that major production from the Lake Albert Basin will start in 2016. A basin-wide plan of development will be put before the government for approval later this year.

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Tullow Oil has finally signed agreements paving the way to bring in Total and CNOOC as partners and move ahead to first oil. But the various political and economic debates accompanying the development are moving into a fresh phase with the tabling of new oil laws

The long-awaited first phase of Bujagali is finally supplying the grid after a number of setbacks last year, but there are fears that, even if the full 250MW capacity is reached in the next few months, a similar power crisis could recur within two years

The finalisation of agreements to develop Uganda’s oil discoveries remains stuck on the issue of a stabilisation clause in new production-sharing agreements (PSAs) that would protect companies from losses caused by future changes to fiscal terms

Dutch development finance institution FMO has arranged a $24m senior loan for the financing of a 14MW run-of-the-river hydropower project at Kilembe Donors fund small hydro

A government move to cut the subsidy it pays to keep electricity prices low for domestic and industrial consumers has fed into new fears of civil unrest and underlined the burden of paying for imported diesel until the Bujagali IPP eventually comes on stream

India’s Essar Oil, which owns 50% of Kenya’s Mombasa refinery, has offered to build Uganda’s planned refinery. “There has been a big oil find in Uganda. To process it, they

With power cuts causing riots in Kampala, and the start-up of a long-awaited hydro-electric power project delayed for the fourth time this year, Uganda is in for a difficult dry season, writes Adrian J Browne

President Yoweri Museveni on 23 November formally inaugurated the 6.6MW

Petroleum commissioner Ernest Rubondo has told the ad hoc parliamentary committee investigating the oil sector that “close to 80” applications had been received from international oil companies looking to secure blocks in Uganda’s open acreage

Petroleum commissioner Ernest Rubondo has told the ad hoc parliamentary committee investigating the oil sector that “close to 80” applications had been received from international oil companies looking to secure blocks in Uganda’s open acreage. Rubondo said companies were targeting blocks,

The government’s attempts to disregard parliament’s oil resolutions, and to weaken the capacity of a corruption probe committee, have met with considerable opposition, underlining the capacity of domestic politics to complicate Uganda’s passage to becoming an oil producer, writes Adrian J Browne

The government’s attempts to disregard parliament’s oil resolutions, and to weaken the capacity of a corruption probe committee, have met with considerable opposition, underlining the capacity of domestic politics to complicate Uganda’s passage to becoming an oil producer

The Energy Water and Sanitation Authority is seeking expressions of interest for the construction of a 220kV transmission line between Mirama