Daily Monitor
Wednesday April 14 2021
Summary
Although officials do not state the exact start date, they say a few items need to be sorted to pave the way for works.
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The construction of the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) will start on the Tanzanian side en route to Uganda, officials have revealed but without stating the start date.
Speaking yesterday at a press briefing on the oil agreements signed on Sunday, the Eacop company general manager, Mr Martin Tiffen announced that construction works on all the oil projects - Total E&P’s Tilenga in Nwoya and Buliisa districts, Cnooc’s Kingfisher in Hoima and Kikuube districts, and the pipeline - will move simultaneously.
Daily Monitor
Sunday April 11 2021
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni gestures during a meeting with Tanzanian President Samia Hassan that preceded the signing of the the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Tripartite Project Agreement at State House Entebbe on April 11, 2021. PHOTO/PPU
Summary
Today’s signing of three agreements by the presidents of Uganda and Tanzania, and the head of oil giant Total, has renewed hope that commercial oil production could finally kick off in four years’ time.
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The government and international oil firms French Total E&P, and China’s Cnooc have today signed off four key agreements for commercialisation of the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), bringing to end years of protracted negotiations and setting on course Uganda’s oil project for the next phases of development and production by earliest 2025.