Tanzania has agreed with Uganda to accelerate the implementation of a crude oil pipeline project between the two east African nations, and award the construction contract to multiple contractors.
Tanzania is planning to build a pipeline to supply natural gas to neighbouring Uganda, as it looks to export some of the huge offshore gas reserves discovered in recent years.
Uganda decided to route a multi billion dollar crude export pipeline through Tanzania, forcing neighboring Kenya to develop a separate link to transport its own oil.
Hopes of Kenya in convincing Uganda over the proposed oil pipeline route continue to diminish as talks aimed at arriving to consensus enter the home stretch.
Kenya may build its own pipeline to transport oil from the northern Turkana region to a port at the coast if a proposal to build one jointly with Uganda falls through, Kenyan Energy Principal Secretary said.
The government of Tanzania has sent a business delegation to Kampala, Uganda, to lobby the Ugandan President and other senior officials to conclude an unresolved contract that will allow for the construction of an oi ...
Construction of the long-awaited Tanzania-Uganda crude oil pipeline is expected to start in August this year, and will be completed in 2019. The $4b pipeline is to ship 200,000b/d and it will be carried out by UK’s T ...