To those who view local participation, and by this we mean the share of contracts going to indigenously owned companies, as a
If the announcement of oil production licenses, to the most credible consortium likely to commercialize Uganda’s oil find, had arrived two or
The Kampala authorities went into a state of shock when Gen. John Garang De Mabior died. His chopper, an aircraft loaned to
When the heat dies down in the latest bloodletting in South Sudan, Africa’s newest state, it should not be obscured that above
Over the last several weeks while researching the potential implications of drilling in the environmentally sensitive Albertine Graben I had several conversations
President Yoweri Museveni has assented to the second petroleum [ Petroleum Refining, Conversion, Transmission and Storage] bill otherwise known as the “Midstream” bill. It
It has been a busy few weeks. And there is a lot to get off one’s chest and hands. Uganda throws up
IN SUMMARY The availability of direct project funds from sources like the Exim Bank of China, as well as the willingness of
After over two months, Uganda’s publicly contested upstream oil bill is not law. The law is not even on the President’s desk.
Power briefly wavered on February 12, Valentines Day. This year the commercial holiday seemed more present. At Hotel Africana in the middle