London, UK |  – Tullow Oil Plc, which has discoveries in Uganda and Kenya, sees an opportunity cost if the two countries don’t collaborate on a pipeline to ship their crude to the Indian Ocean, a company official said. Landlocked Uganda is deciding on whether the pipeline will traverse northern Kenya’s desert to a proposed port at Lamu, or south past Lake Victoria to Tanga on Tanzania’s coast. While Tullow, which discovered Uganda’s oil, has a seat at the talks, the pipeline decision is “above …

Kampala, Uganda | – Uganda and Tanzania are planning to build a pipeline from Ugandan oil fields to the Tanzanian coast in a move that could strike a blow to Kenyan pipeline plans. Statements issued after Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli met yesterday did not mention the fate of the Kenyan oil export pipeline plan. Uganda, which has yet to start oil production, raised the possibility of a Tanzanian pipeline route last year. France’s multinational oil major Total, one of …

Kampala, Uganda | – Tanzania and Uganda have signed an agreement that paves the way for studies to explore the possibility of building a pipeline to the Tanzanian port of Tanga. Uganda has been looking at various options of developing the crude oil export pipeline, which include Hoima-Lacor-Lamu Port, Hoima-Nairobi-Mombasa, and now Hoima-Tanga. Dr Fred Kabagambe-Kaliisa, Permanent Secretary of Uganda’s Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, said the deal will help the parties to appraise the merits of a crude export pipeline option through Tanzania …

Nairobi, Kenya | – Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda are in the final stages of deciding on a consultant to oversee building a pipeline to pump the region’s new oil bonanza to the coast for export, a senior Kenyan energy ministry officials said on Thursday. In June, the three countries invited bids for a consultant to oversee a feasibility study and initial design for the construction of a 1,300-km (808-mile) oil pipeline to transport crude to the Kenyan coast. “We are in the final stage of …