Inside the operation to move CNOOC’s massive oil rig from Mombasa to Kikuube and the 4 Ugandan friends whose company, DDG Oil & Gas Logistics, pulled off this complex task

On the 26th of September 2022, a new milestone was achieved in Uganda’s oil and gas industry. The first set of the Drilog and Welleader system and the LR8001 land rig equipment started arriving in Kikuube District, in Western Uganda’s oil-rich Albertine Graben. And this is no ordinary rig. According to CNOOC Uganda, the operator of the Kingfisher Development Area, it is a customised deluxe land rig and the “most advanced Chinese oil drilling equipment in the oil and gas industry exploration and development sector.”  The rig, said to be 8km long, once assembled, is the first fully automated silent…