Uganda - Tanzania oil pipeline

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Tanzania ready to start constructing Ug-Tz oil pipeline (independent.co.ug)​

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT) |

The construction of the $3.5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) is scheduled to start next month, Tanzanian newspaper The Citizen has reported today. Quoting Tanzania’s Foreign Affairs minister Palamagamba Kabudi, , Foreign Affairs minister Palamagamba Kabudi, The Citizen said the decision was confirmed last week during his visit to France.

In France, Kabudi met Total Oil Company director for Africa Division Nicolas Terraz where they discussed commencement of work. “While in France I held talks with Total director who assured me that all is set for the construction of the pipeline to kick off in the second week of next month,” said Prof Kabudi according to The Citizen.

In September last year, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni made a rare visit in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic to Tanzania to sign a deal with his Tanzanian counterpart, John Magufuli to hasten the implementation of the Eacop project.

Museveni (left) and Magufuli (right) at last year’s signing of the pipeline deal. PHOTO PPU

Earlier, Uganda signed the Host Government Agreement (HGA) with Total on the multibillion dollar Eacop Project that paves the way for the construction of a crude oil pipeline to Tanga port. The 1,447-kilometre pipeline will be used for transportation of crude oil from Hoima in Uganda to the Tanga port for export overseas. The pipeline, two thirds of which will pass through Tanzania, will generate at least 4,700 direct employments and 27,000 indirect jobs, according to Prof Kabudi.

The 24 inch diameter heated pipeline will export a flow rate of 216,000 barrels of crude per day.

Route of the planned pipeline​

Unlike other East African countries, Tanzania did not lockdown due to COVID-19, and the economy continued running normally to this day.
Several projects, completed in the past one year, were launched yesterday by COVID-19 skeptic John Pombe Magufuli.

 

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Hili Bomba kama Tanzania na Uganda wakifanya mchezo haliwezi kujengwa. Tatizo kubwa ni pale wasioiombea Tanzania na Uganda mafanikio.

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