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Operator Heritage Oil has spudded the Giraffe well in the Butiaba region of Block 1, following the Warthog and Buffalo discoveries on the same block. Giraffe-1 is located 5km south-west of the successful Buffalo-1 well, which encountered a gross hydrocarbon-bearing interval of some 123 metres with net hydrocarbon pay of 43 metres. Buffalo-1 is the fifth successful test of the Victoria Nile delta play fairway within the Lake Albert Rift Basin and was drilled 16km north-east of the Warthog-1 and Kasamene-1 discoveries.

The African Development Bank Group has approved a soft African Development Fund loan of $78.13m to finance the Mbarara-Nkenda and Tororo-Lira power transmission lines project.

The World Bank Group’s Inspection Panel (IP) has raised a number of concerns in its investigation of the Bujagali dam project. Groups led by Uganda’s National Association of Professional Environmentalists (NAPE) requested an inspection last year (AE 119/23). The project has also been investigated by the African Development Bank’s Independent Recourse Mechanism.

Seadrill rig contract; IPR scores Jurassic discovery in Western Desert; Sea Dragon drills on Dahab North; Kiarsseny farm-in deal; Hyedua appraisal success; Taoudeni drilling to start next year; JV proposed with UAE company; Second gas find for Circle; Data facility; EAX in exploration deal; Kingfisher appraisal success

Ugandan President seeks Nigerian oil expertise; Bahraini link up for Africa plays

President Yoweri Museveni has formally commissioned the 50MW Namanve thermal power plant, built by Jacobsen Elektro on the outskirts of Kampala to supply the Namanve industrial park and the national grid (AE 149/6). “With the commissioning of the plant, I am pleased to inform the nation that the power supply deficit at the evening peak is drastically narrowed to about 35MW. This necessitates limited load-shedding in the evening.

GdF Suez plans LNG plant; KBR wins Lobito refinery FEED; Chevron sells downstream ops to Total; Foster Wheeler to oversee Zwara refinery

Block 1 operator Heritage Oil has announced an oil discovery with the Warthog-1 well, the first to be drilled on the block. The well was drilled to a total depth of 911 metres and found a hydrocarbon-bearing interval of 150 metres, with 46 metres of net hydrocarbon pay.

A new report by the World Bank’s Africa chief economist Vivien Foster – The state of infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa: Early results of the African Infrastructure Country Diagnostic (AICD) study* – gives clear indications

In Salah substations; OMVS seeks studies of hydropower projects; Sahanivotry HEP start-up; USTDA grant for waste-to-energy; Wind farm tender, AfDB considers funding for Buseruka HEP

AFREN: Another Nigerian indigenous partnership; HERITAGE: Ends sale talks; ROC OIL: New chief executive mulls future; SAIPEM: Drilling contracts

Tullow Oil has announced an oil discovery with the Kigogole-1 exploration well in the Butiaba region of Block 2.The well was drilled to a total depth of 616 metres and encountered two oil zones with net pay of ten metres. Testing hasconfirmed the presence of moveable light sweet oil in reservoirs just below 400 metres. This is the shallowest section where oil has been encountered in Uganda to date, Tullow said. Kigogole-1, drilled 10km north-east of the Kasamene-1 discovery, was the third test on the new Victoria Nile Delta play within the Lake Albert Rift Basin.

A US company has announced plans for a waste-to-energy plant to process 1,000 t/d of solid waste in Kampala. California-based Carbon Jungle said its waste-to-fuel subsidiary Cobal-USA Alternative Fuels had received a pre-agreement from local partner Dag & Bragan accompanied by a letter of interest from Kampala’s mayor.

Faced with high tariffs and capacity shortfalls, Uganda is anxious to explore all possible means to increase generating capacity and cut its fuel bill while it waits for the Bujagali dam to come on stream in 2011.

Block 3A operator Heritage Oil expects to upgrade reserves for the Kingfisher field following the drilling of the Kingfisher-2 appraisal well.