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3rd February 2022

TotalEnergies and CNOOC Reach FID on Ugandan Lake Albert Development

The Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Lake Albert Development in Uganda has been announced by TotalEnergies, a French energy company, and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). TotalEnergies...

26th June 2021

CNOOC Seeks Investors to Drill Oil Wells in Gabon and Senegal

After acquiring Shell's final properties in Gabon in 2019, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), China's third-largest national oil corporation after CNPC and China Petrochemical Corporation, announced its intention to...

20th November 2020

Construction of the EACOP to Begin by the End of June 2021 – Minister Kitutu

The Ugandan Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Dr Mary Goretti Kitutu, has confirmed that the construction of the 1,445-kilometre East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is to commence in...

21st October 2020

Uganda Received No New Bid for Its Licensing Round After a Six-month Extension

According to The EastAfrican, the second round of bids for Uganda's oil licensing round that expired at the end of September ended with no new expressions of interest received from...

11th August 2020

Refinery Construction in Uganda Postponed to 2025

The construction of Uganda's refinery has been postponed once again and cannot start until at least 2025. The push in the Final Investment Decision (FID) on the basin-wide upstream oil...

7th August 2020

Nigeria’s NNPC Signs Agreement with CNOOC and SAPETRO to Settle OML 130 Dispute

NNPC - Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation The West African country's National Oil Company is said to have signed a preliminary Head of Terms (HoT) agreement to end a dispute on...

29th June 2020

Uganda National Oil Company calls for Joint-venture Partnership in Ongoing Licensing Round

In 2019, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Uganda announced the bidding round for the country's Second Licensing Round, with the deadline for submission slated...

16th June 2020

Tullow Awaits Approval from Ugandan Government to Complete Deal with Total

After completing its agreement with French oil and gas company, Total, over the transfer of its entire interests in Blocks 1, 1A, 2 and 3A in Uganda, and the proposed...

2nd June 2020

Total to ‘Total-ly’ Dominate Uganda’s Oil Sector

Total will be dominating Uganda's oil sector through its major ownership of 66.66% of Lake Albert oil projects. In 2022/2023, Total is expected to begin production with China National Offshore...