February 23, 2021 Written by Jeff Mbanga
A number of tenders and jobs are being offered in Uganda’s oil industry as the country moves closer to sealing a final investment decision for a key infrastructure project – the crude oil pipeline to Tanzania – with some speculators saying the decision could come as early as this week.
French oil major Total E&P, the lead developer in Uganda’s oil industry, has been issuing bids for construction services for its Tilenga development project, and also ensuring the project affected persons are well-compensated. The Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) – the institution in charge of government’s commercial interests in the oil industry – has also been recruiting staff to build its capacity as it prepares to
Oil contracts, jobs bonanza as Uganda nears $3 5bn final investment decision
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Govt seeks to train locals along oil pipeline route
February 10, 2021 Construction works for oil pipeline
Some of the Ugandans living along the East African crude oil pipeline route are to be trained in how to exploit the immense opportunities that the sector is about to present.
The Petroleum Authority has come up with a plan to boost the capacity of some people in the 10 districts that the pipeline will pass.
“This is a project to enable local business enterprises benefit from the very big job, which is going to be done in laying the pipeline which is going to be taking Uganda’s crude oil from here to Tanzania,” Ernest Rubondo, the executive director of the Petroleum Authority, said while launching the project in Mubende recently.
Mon, 8th Feb 2021 10:36
(Alliance News) - Tower Resources PLC on Monday said its subsidiary Rift Petroleum Ltd has received updated resource estimates from its partner and license operator New Age Energy Algoa Ltd for the Algoa-Gamtoos license, offshore South Africa.
The Africa-focused oil and gas company said the reprocessing work encompassed 4,500 line kilometres of 2D seismic data, incorporating data already owned by the partners, plus data acquired from the Petroleum Authority of South Africa. This includes tie lines from Brulpadda to the Algoa-Gamtoos area, together with two post-stack merged 3D seismic surveys in the Algoa Basin.
The work was undertaken by Petroleum Geo-Services, with the focus on creating a time and phase matched dataset covering the Gamtoos Basin and the Deepwater, or the Outeniqua basin, section of the license area.
2021-02-04 15:14:02
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. On January 29, 2021, the last day of its autumn session, State Great Khural of Mongolia approved a bill on Supporting the Oil Refinery.
The bill is aimed at ensuring realization of the construction project of an oil refinery underway with the loan agreement between the government of Mongolia and the Exim Bank of India within its scheduled date, intensify the project implementation, define the Mongolian government’s support to the project and create the legal framework.
The bill was co-developed by the Ministries of Justice and Home Affairs, Finance and Mining and Heavy Industry, Mineral Resources and Petroleum Authority and Mongolian Oil Refinery state owned company.
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