The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) has commenced the search for its second Executive Director, formally opening the next chapter in the leadership of Uganda’s oil and gas regulator. The recruitment signals a carefully sequenced succession plan ahead of the expected end of Ernest N. T. Rubondo’s second and final term on August 31, 2026. The move is more than administrative. It comes at a moment when Uganda’s petroleum sector is on the cusp of transformation from years of exploration, negotiation and construction into full-scale production. For PAU, the transition marks the end of an era shaped almost entirely by…
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Uganda’s petroleum sector has recorded a major milestone with new assessments showing a rise in recoverable oil resources from 1.4 billion to 1.65 billion barrels. The announcement was made by…
Hardly two years after arriving in Uganda to take up her very first CEO role at Uganda’s largest telco, MTN Uganda, Sylvia Mulinge has emerged as Uganda’s most admired CEO, in the CEO East Africa Magazine’s inaugural 100 Leading & Most Admired CEOs In Uganda Survey. The 2-in-1 CEO East Africa Magazine’s Most Trusted and Respected Companies & The Most Admired CEOs in Uganda Survey 2024 is part of the magazine’s thought leadership agenda that seeks to create a body of knowledge on what exactly great companies and great leaders are made of, as well as recognise them. “This, we…
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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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The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) has been recognised as the petroleum regulator of the year in Sub-Saharan Africa. The award was presented to Mr. Ernest Rubondo, the Executive Director at the PAU, during the 7th Annual Sub-Saharan Africa International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (SAIPEC) which took place in Lagos Nigeria between 13th – 16th February 2023. SAIPEC is one of leading oil and gas conferences in Africa and was attended by over 400 participants including over 100 companies showcasing their products and services to industry professionals. The PAU was selected from amongst other petroleum regulators from Nigeria, Liberia,…
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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…
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The Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) and the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (EWURA) of Tanzania have renewed their commitment to jointly cooperate in the regulation and monitoring of the design, construction, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Project. The commitment was re-echoed during a joint five-day supervisory field visit to the Uganda section of the EACOP with specific interest to areas that will host key support infrastructure like the pump stations, construction main camp and pump yards, environmentally sensitive areas, and resettlement projects for the project affected persons. This comes at the…
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“Board members must shift their approaches; they must adopt digital tools to enhance governance.” These were remarks made by Francis Kamulegeya during a high profile convention was organized by the League of East African Directors (LEAD). Kamulegeya, a thought leader and adviser on corporate strategy, leadership, governance and policy, was the keynote speaker at the event. Richard Byarugaba the Managing Director at National Social Security Fund (NSSF) echoed Kamulegeya’s sentiments by stating that technology has become so important. “You need to have a board that appreciates technology,” Byarugaba told the audience during the convention that was held on Thursday at…
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As Uganda gears up to become a regional oil producing economy, works on the critical oil and gas infrastructure have progressed significantly. This observation was made by Dr. Ramathan Ggoobi, the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury (PS/ST) while on a three-day working field visit to the oil and gas operational areas that was coordinated by the Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU). Dr. Ggoobi said the infrastructure gap which was one of the key challenges to commercialising Uganda’s oil and gas sector had been addressed by Government and was impressed with the progress made in the sector developments following…
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Hyve Group Plc, organisers of Africa Oil Week, have announced the CEOs and Ministerial headliners attending the 27th edition, due to take place on 8-11 November in Dubai The official Event Brochure, released by the organisers, details the African Ministers, government leaders, CEOs and upstream experts due to speak on the CPD-accredited agenda later this year. Uganda’s Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa makes her first international ministerial engagement among the African ministers. Her role as a government official is to woo investors to the country’s oil sector. Amongst those listed as main stage headliners is Nicolas Terraz, President of Exploration and…
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