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UGANDA’S 100 OIL AND GAS LEADERS: Dr. Simon Echegu, Board Member, Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC)

CEO ReporterEnergy, Oil & Gas Uganda's 100 Oil & Gas Leaders 2024June 18, 2025June 18, 2025

Dr. Simon Echegu is a Senior Academic staff at Makerere University currently serving as a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Geology and Petroleum Studies. He has 20 years…

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UGANDA’S OIL & GAS INDUSTRY COMES OF AGE: Meet the 100 oil and gas leaders driving the race to our first oil

Muhereza KyamuteteraBusiness & Markets Lists & Rankings The Big StoryAugust 16, 2024December 5, 2024

Since reaching FID in February 2022, Uganda has kicked off a massive oil drilling campaign with four oil rigs⏤ three of them at the TotalEnergies-operated USD4-5 billionTilenga Project in Buliisa and Nwoya districts, and one rig at the CNOOC-run USD2-3 billionKingfisher Project in Kikuube in the Albertine Graben. As of June 2024, TotalEnergies had made considerable progress in drilling over 35 oil wells with a projection of drilling 98 wells by the end of 2024. Seven oil wells had so far been drilled at the KingFisher Project alongside other engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) works. Construction works for the USD5…

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