Uganda Maintains Mid-2026 First Oil Target Despite Auditor General Concerns
The Petroleum Authority of Uganda has reaffirmed that the country remains on course to achieve its long-awaited first oil by mid-2026, pushing back against concerns raise...
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Uganda’s First Oil: A Defining Countdown to Economic Transformation and Energy Sovereignty
KAMPALA – As every second, minute, hour, day, and month winds down, Uganda edges closer to its promise—the dawn of oil production.From drilling and completi...
Uganda hits critical drilling milestone as July 2026 ‘first oil’ deadline looms
The Tilenga oil fields development project is located in the Lake Albert region of Uganda.KAMPALA — Uganda’s Lake Albert development has passed a decisive t...
EACOP project sparks ongoing battle over land and justice
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In Arusha, Tanzania, Lubega John Nsamba represented her ailing father, John Mary Nsamba, whose land along the East African Crude Oil P...
Simon Mungudit: Makerere’s Best Performing Male Science Student and Rising Star in Petroleum Geoscience
Simon Mungudit has emerged as the best performing male student in the Sciences at Makerere University and is set to graduate during the University’s 76th Graduatio...
Uganda’s recoverable oil reserves rise to 1.65 billion barrels.
Uganda’s petroleum sector has reported an increase in the country’s estimated oil and gas reserves, according to Ernest Rubondo, Executive Director of the P...
PAU’s decade of growth powers Uganda’s $15 billion oil projects
ENTEBBE – The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) is marking ten years of regulating the country’s oil and gas sector, a milestone that Executive Director E...
Habib Kagimu to Entrepreneurs: Prepare for Uganda’s Oil Boom
Oil companies are like a nation — they need everything from everything. If you can set up shop near them, they will buy everything from you,†Kagimu explaine...
Uganda’s Oil Reserves Rise to 6.65 Bn Barrels, says Nankabirwa.
The oil sector’s development — including two central processing facilities at Kingfisher and Tilenga — is expected to unlock billions in ancillary in...
Road to Uganda’s first oil: Kingfisher likely to be starting point
For the next nine months, activities in Uganda’s oil fields will be ramped up as the country targets to get its first barrel of oil to the market through a 1,443km...