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Uganda
Sinosure doubts over EACOP worry Museveni and TotalEnergies

The Chinese export credit insurer released $2bn for the project last September but is hesitating over a further $3bn outlay amid project criticisms. [...]

Published on 09/05/2024 at 05:40 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Delays, finance woes and reshuffles signal TotalEnergies' Tilenga troubles

The French major is well behind schedule in its plans to bring the Tilenga oil field on stream, while financing for the EACOP export pipeline is far from complete. Irked, group CEO Patrick Pouyanné has reshuffled key executives in a bid to speed things up.

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Chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies Patrick Pouyanné in Paris on 23 May 2024.

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TotalEnergies secures Africa Finance Corp backing for East African pipeline

In an effort to stem the criticism of environmentalists and growing investor disinterest, the boss of the French major, Patrick Pouyanné, has persuaded the pan-African financial institution to support the planned oil pipeline between Uganda and Tanzania.

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Kampala embarrassed by two tonnes of missing gold

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Tshisekedi wants slice of planned Ugandan crude oil pipeline pie, TotalEnergies sceptical

The president of DRC is pushing for his country to have a stake in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) through which Uganda's plans to export via Tanzania, despite the fact no crude oil has been discovered on the Congolese side of Lake Albert.

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Kinshasa in talks with CNOOC over Dan Gertler's former Lake Albert blocks

The oil blocks on the Congolese side of Lake Albert, long held by Israeli billionaire Gertler, are back on the market. Kinshasa is in confidential talks with the Chinese major CNOOC.

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DRC President Felix Tshisekedi, 22 September 2022.

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Museveni cuts security spending and MPs expenses to finance oil pipeline

Several state entities in Uganda have been ordered to trim their budgets so that more funds can be allocated to national oil firm UNOC. The police and army are among those set to take a hit.

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in Kampala in June 2021.

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Uganda
Sinosure doubts over EACOP worry Museveni and TotalEnergies

Spotlight | Tanzania, Uganda
Delays, finance woes and reshuffles signal TotalEnergies' Tilenga troubles

Spotlight | Tanzania, Uganda
TotalEnergies secures Africa Finance Corp backing for East African pipeline

Uganda
Kampala embarrassed by two tonnes of missing gold

Spotlight | Uganda
Uganda struggles to launch $4bn oil refinery

Spotlight | DRC, Tanzania, Uganda
Tshisekedi wants slice of planned Ugandan crude oil pipeline pie, TotalEnergies sceptical

Spotlight | DRC
Kinshasa in talks with CNOOC over Dan Gertler's former Lake Albert blocks

Uganda
Museveni cuts security spending and MPs expenses to finance oil pipeline