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Tanzania and Uganda have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to facilitate the development and operation of the Kikagati-Murongo hydropower project on their joint border.
Veteran oilman Jack Keyes has turned his attention to Zambia, attracted by the success of onshore exploration in Uganda.
Tullow is structuring its Uganda farm-down to give each of the partners operatorship in one of the three blocks, in a bid to make development of the Lake Albert Basin less of a one-man show, writes Thalia Griffiths
AIM-listed East Africa player Dominion Petroleum has failed to win shareholder approval for a recapitalisation scheme
Recent pressure on the Kenyan, Tanzanian and Ugandan shillings poses problems for power developers and others operating in East Africa’s fast-growing economies, with echoes of the late 1990s events in Asia that undermined that region’s burgeoning IPP sector, writes Kevin Godier with Jon Marks
Tullow Oil has appointed Eoin Mekie as
Abu Dhabi-based oilfield service company AlMansoori Specialised Engineering has expanded into East Africa by opening an office in Kampala for its Target Well Control subsidiary. Elsewhere, Dominion Petroleum has agreed to acquire 75% in the production-sharing contract (PSC) for blocks 4, 5, 6 and 7 of Area 4 offshore Malta from Phoenicia Energy Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mediterranean Oil & Gas (MOG).
Stepping up exploration activity following the settlement of its tax dispute with the government, Tullow Oil has announced two oil strikes with the Jobi-East-1 and Mpyo-3 wells in Exploration Area 1.
The scramble for oil has created some surprising alliances between local politicians and international oil companies, drawing attention to the gap between what may be unethical and what is illegal, writes Adrian J Browne
President Yoweri Museveni named a new cabinet on 27 May, appointing former Ugandan Electricity Distribution Company managing director Irene Muloni as energy and minerals minister. Muloni, the MP for Bulambuli, takes over from Hilary Onek, who moves to internal affairs.
Silver Wave Energy, offshore blocks, Petroleum Agency of South Africa, impact assessment, Shell, Orange Basin Deepwater Area, western coast
Tullow Oil has signed sale and purchase agreements to farm down one third each of its Uganda assets to Total and CNOOC, but still has to resolve the thorny question of tax payments (AE 205/14).
Tullow Oil has settled its dispute with the Ugandan government over the tax payable on Heritage Oil Corporation's sale of its assets in blocks 1 and 3A (AE 203/12).
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Despite gloomy predictions of recession, exploration has been buoyed by the high oil price and by Asian demand for gas. East Africa has arrived as a significant hydrocarbons industry play, writes Thalia Griffiths in Kampala