This is a best prospect industry sector for this country. Includes a market overview and trade data.
Last Published: 7/21/2019

 

Overview

About 1.4 billion of Uganda’s 6.5 billion barrels of oil, located mostly on its western border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are estimated to be economically recoverable.  French firm Total, S.A.,  CNOOC, and U.K. firm Tullow Oil, hold license to develop these resources, but have yet to reach a Final Investment Decision (FID) as protracted negotiations with the government continue.  Once FID is made, developing the sector will require several billion dollars of infrastructure investment to build and support a refinery, two central processing facilities, and a 1400 km heated oil export pipeline that will run from western Uganda to Tanzania’s Indian Ocean port of Tanga.  In 2018, the AGRC – a U.S.-led group of companies including General Electric, YAATRA Africa, and the Italian engineering firm Saipem SPA – officially won the right to finance, build, and operate the $3 billion oil refinery.  The oil companies announced that they would make their FID before the end of 2019, however, this deadline has been pushed back numerous times.  The GOU has announced that it will tender the rights for additional oil exploration in five blocks in western Uganda before the end of 2019.
The Petroleum Authority of Uganda requires firms seeking to be added to the National Supplier Database to attest that their registration documents are authentic.  For instructions on this process, please see:  :  U.S. Embassy Kampala – Notary Services

[Select “Registering a U.S. firm on the National Supplier Database”]

Opportunities

International oil companies are increasingly looking for service subcontractors including engineers, housing construction, road infrastructure design and construction, environmental hazard controls, and vocational training services.

Web Resources

Petroleum Authority of Uganda – National Supplier Database

Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development

Directorate  of Geological Survey and Mines of Uganda

Total E&P Uganda [licensed oil production company]
E-mail: EP.TEPUInfo@total.com

CNOOC Uganda Ltd. [licensed oil production company]
E-mail: cnooc@cnooc.com.cn

Fluor [bidding on oil pipeline]
Website:  http://www.fluor.com/

McDermott [bidding on oil pipeline]
Website: https://www.mcdermott.com/

Yaatra Venutres [lead firm for the refinery consortium]
Website: https://www.yaatraventures.com/

 

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