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Uganda-Tanzania MoU on defence will help

establish security arrangements for EACOP

UGANDA/TANZANIA THE governments of Uganda and Tanzania crude oil resources. TotalEnergies aims to launch
have signed a memorandum of understanding production at the site in 2025 and will eventually
(MoU) that will help establish security arrange- see yields top 200,000 barrels per day.
ments for the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline EACOP, meanwhile, is the midstream com-
(EACOP). ponent of LADP. The pipeline will carry more
According to press reports, Uganda’s Min- than 200,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude from
ister of Defence and Veteran Affairs, Vincent the Kingfisher and Tilenga fields to the world
Bamulangaki Ssempijja, and Tanzania’s Minis- market along a 1,443-km route from Hoima, a
ter of Defence and National Service, Stergomena town near Lake Albert in western Uganda, to the
Tax, signed the MoU in Kampala at the week- Tanzanian port of Tanga. When finished, it will
end. The document outlines the two neighbour- be the world’s longest heated pipeline.
ing countries’ plans for co-operation in the areas The governments of Uganda and Tanza-
of security and defence. nia signed agreements with TotalEnergies of
Ssempijja said at the signing ceremony that France and China National Offshore Oil Corp.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his (CNOOC), the companies that are leading work
Tanzanian counterpart Samia Suluhu Hassan at Kingfisher and Tilenga, on the construction of
both saw co-operation on this front as a high the pipeline in April 2021. Those documents call
priority. “I am therefore happy to note that today for EACOP to come on line in 2025, when the
we have moved on some of the issues including Lake Albert fields start production. ™
reviewing the memorandum of understanding
(MOU) on defence and security co-operation, as
well as operationalising the inter-governmental
security committee for the East Africa Crude Oil
Pipeline project,” he was quoted as saying by the
Nile Post.
The minister did not reveal any details of the
two countries’ plans for setting up the security
committee. However, he did state that the MoU
would lay the groundwork for the relevant gov-
ernment agencies to share information.
For her part, Tax said the signing of the
memorandum had given Tanzania and Uganda
another opportunity to work together on issues
related to peace and security. She also indicated
that the joint defence and security measures
would encompass anti-terrorist initiatives, say-
ing: “Terrorism remains a major threat requiring
joint and proportionate efforts and measures.”
Tilenga is the main upstream component of
the Lake Albert Development Project (LADP),
a $10bn initiative that aims to monetise Uganda’s The MoU lays the foundation for co-operation on security for EACOP (Image: UNOC)

INVESTMENT
Accra reportedly receiving offers for TOR

GHANA Ghana’s Minister of Public Enterprises (GNA) published on May 10, Cudjoe stated that
Joseph Cudjoe has said that the government is a number of companies had submitted offers to
starting to receive proposals from potential stra- the Ministry of Energy. He did not name any
tegic investors in Tema Oil Refinery (TOR). potential buyers but said they were willing to
In an interview with Ghana News Agency provide TOR with technology and funds.

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