Total yafikia makubaliano na Uganda, yakaribia kuanza ujenzi wa bomba la mafuta kupitia Tanzania

[Geza Ulole]

It can be fixed. We just did not have the money to fix it but it will be cheaper to fix it than build a new pipeline.

make sure u don't end up buying crude from Uganda then pipped to tanga get refined and shipped to Mombasa before being transported to nairobi again! Tembo mweupe huonekana Asubuuuuuhi ☝ 😀 😀 😀 ☝

 

[Tony254]

make sure u don't end up buying crude from Uganda then pipped to tanga get refined and shipped to Mombasa before being transported to nairobi again! Tembo mweupe huonekana Asubuuuuuhi ☝ 😀 😀 😀 ☝

It is very easy to fix that pipeline. Sijui mbona unafikiria kuwa ni kazi ngumu kurekebisha hio pipeline ili iweze kupump mafuta in a reverse flow. Hio sio kazi ngumu kama unavyofikiria.

 

[Geza Ulole]

It is very easy to fix that pipeline. Sijui mbona unafikiria kuwa ni kazi ngumu kurekebisha hio pipeline ili iweze kupump mafuta in a reverse flow. Hio sio kazi ngumu kama unavyofikiria.

will it be free ama another $100 mln? as u will need several pumps to reverse the flow!

 

[Tony254]

will it be free ama another $100 mln? as u will need several pumps to reverse the flow!

Pipeline yenyewe ilicost nadhani around $450 million. So hata kama pumps zitacost $100 million, hio ni pesa kidogo kushinda kujenga pipeline nyingine. Kumbuka hapa Kenya $100 million huwa inaibiwa na wanasiasa kila mwezi. Kwa hivyo afadhali hio pesa itumike kwenye maendeleo kushinda hio pesa kuibiwa na wanasiasa.

 

[Magonjwa Mtambuka]

Kuna likamanda uchwara la ufipa juzi tu lilikuwa linafurahia eti mradi wa bomba sasa utapitia Kenya badala ya Tanzania. Haya majamaa ni majinga kweli kweli.

 

[henry kilenga]

[emoji3][emoji3]Kuna mmoja hapo juu ni kamanda wa ufipa eti anapinga kwa kuapa kuwa mradi huu hautatekelezeka

Kuna likamanda uchwara la ufipa juzi tu lilikuwa linafurahia eti mradi wa bomba sasa utapitia Kenya badala ya Tanzania. Haya majamaa ni majinga kweli kweli.

 

[Geza Ulole]

Pipeline yenyewe ilicost nadhani around $450 million. So hata kama pumps zitacost $100 million, hio ni pesa kidogo kushinda kujenga pipeline nyingine. Kumbuka hapa Kenya $100 million huwa inaibiwa na wanasiasa kila mwezi. Kwa hivyo afadhali hio pesa itumike kwenye maendeleo kushinda hio pesa kuibiwa na wanasiasa.

 

[JokaKuu]

..Watanzania tunapenda sana vitu vipya-vipya.

..kwa mfano, sasa hivi tumesahau kwamba tuna bomba la mafuta kati ya Tanzania na Zambia.

..bomba ambalo tayari lipo linatupatia faida kiasi gani, kabla ya kuanza kufikiria mapato toka ktk bomba la Uganda to Tanzania?

..tunayo reli ya Tazara ambayo ilikuwa the longest and most modern railway kabla nchi za Africa hazijaanza kujenga std gauge railways.

..sasa reli ya Tazara tunaitumia kwa kiwango gani? Je, hatuna uwezo wa kubuni matumizi zaidi ya reli ambayo tayari tunayo?

 

[kabombe]

BTW what happened to Lamu-Lokichar pipeline?

hao wenda wazimu tu.hiyo royte ni 2500km

 

[kabombe]

sasa reli ya Tazara tunaitumia kwa kiwango gani?

kwa hiyo unataka hilo bomba na reli vikate kona vielekee kanda ya kati na ya ziwa badala ya kujenga vipya?

 

[Jumbe Brown]

Kudos To Tanzania and Uganda....👊👊👊
It's Our hope that we move forward and avoid flimsy Failures....

 

[kolola]

Hii porojo ya pipeline tulipigiwa toka 2017 na mradi ukazinduliwa na Magufuli na Museveni huko Tanga, tuliambiwa 2019 pipe itakuwa tayari. Mpaka leo ni porojo tupu.

Unajijua kuwa una roho ya kichawi?

 

[August]

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Uganda na kampuni ya Total ya ufaransa zimefikia makubaliano ambayo yanaifanya kampuni hiyo ya mafuta na washirika wake kukaribia kuanza ujenzi wa bomba la mafuta kwenda nchi ya jirani ya Tanzania, kampuni hiyo ilisema Ijumaa.

Uganda iligundua hifadhi ya mafuta miaka 14 iliyopita lakini uzalishaji wa kibiashara umechelewa kutokana na ukosefu wa miundombine kama bomba la kuyasafirisha.

Bomba la kilomita 1445 linagharimu dola bilioni 3.5 litapitia nchi jirani ya Tanzania kwenda bandari ya Tanga.

Total imesema imefikia makubaliano na Uganda kulinda haki na majukumu yake kwenye ujenzi wa bomba hilo na uendeshaji wake.

“ Leo tumefikia hatua kubwa ambayo inafungua njia kwenye maamuzi ya mwisho ya uwekezaji kwenye miezi ijayo ” Amesema Pierre Jessua, mkurugenzi mtendaji wa Total Uganda
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KAMPALA, Sept 11 (Reuters) - Uganda and France’s Total have reached an agreement that will bring the oil firm and its partners closer to starting construction of a crude pipeline to neighbouring Tanzania, the company’s local unit said on Friday.

Uganda discovered crude oil reserves about 14 years ago but commercial production has been delayed partly because of a lack of infrastructure, such as an export pipeline.

The 1,445-km (900-mile) East African Crude Oil Pipeline, costing $3.5 billion, would pass through neighbouring Tanzania to the Indian Ocean port of Tanga.

Total said it had reached an agreement with Uganda protecting its rights and obligations in the pipeline’s construction and operation - known as the host government agreement.

“We have today reached major milestones which pave the way to the Final Investment Decision in the coming months,” Pierre Jessua, Managing Director of Total E&P Uganda, said in a statement.

“We now look forward to concluding a similar HGA (host government agreement) with the Government of Tanzania and to completing the tendering process for all major engineering, procurement and construction contracts.”

Total said a meeting between President Yoweri Museveni and its Chief Executive Officer Patrick Pouyanné also agreed to conditions allowing Uganda National Oil Company to join the project.

Total is the major shareholder in Uganda’s oil fields after agreeing in April to buy Tullow Oil’s entire stake in jointly-held onshore fields in Uganda for $575 million.

Tullow said this week it was confident of finalising the sale in fourth quarter of this year.

The other partner in the 230,000 barrel-per-day project is China’s CNOOC.

The government said last year once pipeline construction begins, it would take 2-1/2 to three years to complete.

Uganda discovered crude oil reserves estimated at 6 billion barrels in the Albertine rift basin near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2006. (Reporting by Elias Biryabarema; Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)

Uganda, Total reach agreement bringing crude pipeline construction closer - ET EnergyWorld

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MY TAKE
Paving a way for Final investment Decision! BTW what happened to Lamu-Lokichar pipeline?


I see Magufuli name all over, what does that mean?

Tunashukuru kwa hiyo agreement, lakini kuna hii compensation, labda Anti atawatetea

"French oil firm displaced 12,000 in Uganda, Tanzania
2 days ago · Oil from Uganda is to be pumped through pipelines to Tanzania's Port of Dar es Salaam. But many residents on land"

 

[Imeloa]

Mwambie CAG alieisema akupe maelezo yake nadhani alishalisemea hilo mbele ya Rais. Halafu sio kila kitu utaambiwa, hata ruzuku za vyama sio hesabu zote wanachama wanakuwa wana ambiwa zimetumika vipi.

Rudi kwenye mada kamanda wa net.

CAG mbele ya rais, huoni huyo CAG alikuwa anaogopa wasiojulikana kwani wakati huo ndio walikuwa at the peak of their operations.

 

[Tindo]

Unajijua kuwa una roho ya kichawi?

Najijua ndio maana sitaki story za kitapeli.

 

[Geza Ulole]

TBT: When JPM stepped in to advice a dear brother

 

[Geza Ulole]

Museveni's visit to Chato





MY TAKE
2 days after signing a Host Agreement, Museveni is paying JPM a visit in Chato

 

[Mikono yenye Sugu]

Mimi huwa napinga ujenzi wa pipeline Kenya. Kenya sisi hatuhitaji pipeline. Sisi tunahitaji a mini refinery. Yaani karefinery kadogo tu cha matumizi ya ndani. Hii itafanya tuwache kupoteza dola nyingi tunazotumia kuimport mafuta kutoka UAE. Hizo tunaweza kuzihifadhi na kuzitumia kwa shughuli nyingine muhimu. Bei ya mafuta pia itawacha kuyumbayumba hapa Kenya na itakuwa imara kwa sababu mafuta itakuwa inazalishwa hapa Kenya bila ya kujali kama Marekani inapigana na Iran. Bei ya mafuta ya soko la kimataifa huwa inayumba kwa habari za kishenzi sana, kwa mfano Rais wa Marekani akionya Iran kuwa ataibomb bei ya mafuta inapanda. Refinery itatusaidia kushinda pipeline. Sasa hivi sababu zinazotolewa za kukataa kujenga refinery ni kuwa Kenya ina mafuta kidogo na kwa hivyo kujenga refinery ya size ya kawaida ni pesa nyingi ila mimi nasema sio lazima tujenge refinery kubwa. Siku hizi kuna teknolojia mpya ambayo inawezesha nchi kujenga refinery ndogo tu bila kutumia pesa nyingi.

Ndugu yangu, shida ya viongozi wengi wa Kenya ni madalali (brokers). They are ready nchi yao ikose lakini wao wapate, kwa hiyo hawataki chochote ambacho kitakuwa ni suluhisho la muda mrefu kwani watakosa ulaji.

Badala yake watapenda masuluhisho ya muda mfupi ili wapige deals kila siku. Hapa Tanzania sasa hivi, chini ya Rais Magufuli, tumeamua kuishi kwa shida kidogo lakini tukiwatunaweka msingi wa suluhu yamuda mrefu ujao kwa changamoto zinazotukabili.

Katika kufanya hivyo tumechukua maamuzi magumu mengi ambayo kwa kiasi fulani inawaudhi majirani (like Kenya and others) na kuwaudhi sana wazungu. Lakini tumeamua kwenda mbele na katu hatuangalii nyuma.

 

[Sexer]

Mabeberu tena!

 

[Geza Ulole]

Pipeline deal: Oil firms set date for final investment decision


TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15 2020

President Museveni (with hat) and his Tanzania counterpart John Pombe Magufuli sign the agreement on the oil pipeline in Chato District, Tanzania, on Sunday. PHOTO | PPU
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The government and oil companies - French Total E&P, and China’s Cnooc - are eyeing December or January as the new dates for taking the final investment decision (FID) for development of the oil fields and the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP).

Early investments in development of the oil fields—Tilenga in Buliisa and Nwoya districts operated by Total E&P, and Kingfisher in Hoima and Kikuube districts operated by Cnooc—and the 1,445km EACOP running from Hoima to Chongoleani terminal in Tanga at the Indian Ocean, is tagged to a capital expenditure of $10b (about Shs36 trillion).

The renewed optimism follows the signing of the host government agreement (HGA) for EACOP last Friday between government and Total E&P. The ceremony was witnessed by President Museveni and Total global chief executive Patrick Pouyanne.

Also signed on Friday were addendums to the earlier production sharing agreements [re]assigning operatorship of the oil fields—Tilenga to Total E&P, and Kingfisher to Cnooc, respectively, following Tullow Oil’s pending exit.

Also signed was a deed enabling the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC)’s 15 per cent stake in both the Tilenga and Kingfisher projects. UNOC is the statutory body mandated to handle the country’s commercial interests in oil sector.

The HGA, which details some 54 clauses, is the cornerstone of the multi-billion-dollar project. It details, among other issues, governmental rights and obligations, investor duties, environmental and other relevant standards, liability, legal framework, arbitration, and closure of the project.

Negotiation of the HGA between Uganda and Total E&P, and Tanzania commenced in August 2017 and took longer than expected, consequently eating into the earlier stated timelines to the FID.

Matters were further complicated by the collapse of Anglo-Irish Tullow Oil PLC’s sales agreement last year in August and subsequently Total E&P, the lead project developer, froze all activities relating to EACOP until a deal was reached and announced back in April of Total E&P buying out the former.

But then there were several sticking clauses in the HGA, including which laws would be applicable governing the contract—but a compromise was reached to use the laws of England: the transit tariff of $12.2 (about Shs44,492) adjusted for inflation. The other issues were decommissioning of the project for which it was agreed to establish a decommissioning/escrow account for which all parties would deposit and be signatory to instead of Uganda and Tanzania alone, and insurance for the project.

Following Friday’s signing, Mr Museveni on Sunday flew to Tanzania where he signed a joint communique of endorsement of the principles of the HGA with his Tanzanian counterpart John Magufuli.

About the agreements
There are two HGAs for Uganda and Tanzania, which were negotiated in parallel, and require harmonisation. Following Uganda’s signing of its HGA it is expected that Total E&P and Tanzania will now fast-track negotiations of their HGA, which is expected to be concluded by mid-next month, other factors remaining constant.

The permanent secretary in the ministry of Energy, Mr Robert Kasande, told this newspaper yesterday that following resumption of negotiations “in earnest” leading to signing of the HGA, “we remain committed to our timelines for reaching FID.” The clearing of the HGA now paves way for commencement of negotiations on two key agreements for commercialisation of EACOP, the shareholders agreement that details the sharing holding structure, and the transportation agreement between Uganda as a supplier of crude oil and the proposed pipeline company that will sell the oil to the international market.

Currently, the tentative shareholding structure is; both Total E&P and Cnooc each taking a 37.5 per cent stake, Uganda through the National Pipeline Company, a subsidiary of UNOC, taking 15 per cent, and Tanzania through its national oil company, Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC), taking a 5 per cent stake. Insiders say Tanzania promised to up its stake to 25 per cent but is yet to commit further.

The capital expenditure for the project is $3.55b (Shs13 trillion), 70 per cent of which will be raised from international lenders. Each of the party has financial transactional advisers—Standard Chartered Bank for Uganda and Tanzania, Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Ltd and Standard Bank for Total E&P, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC) for Cnooc—on board.

UNOC is expected to receive the first tranche of funding to finance its equity stake in the next financial year.

UNOC’s legal and corporate affairs manager Peter Muliisa said yesterday that conclusion of the HGA “significantly reduces work on the remaining key contracts,” leading to FID within the stated timelines.

How pipeline will be shared
Eighty per cent of the pipeline, 1,147km, will be on the Tanzanian side, and it is estimated that 80 per cent of the project capital expenditure will be spent in Tanzania. The Ugandan section of the pipeline is about 296km through 10 districts, affecting at least 4,121 persons.

Mr Kasande said following resumption of activities on the project, the relevant authorities will likewise resume the resettlement action processes on the proposed right of way.
The HGA is the second EACOP agreement to be signed following the Inter-Government Agreement (IGA) that binds the governments of Uganda and Tanzania on the project, which was signed in May 2017.

In keeping up with the spirit of fast-tracking the FID, Total E&P, the lead developer on the project, has already out sourced engineering, procurement and construction for the project.
Project construction is expected to start mid-next year and take 36 months, leading to creation of more than 10,000 jobs. The pipeline represents the largest trade deal ever between Tanzania and Uganda, currently comprising $120m (Shs425b) annually in each direction.

The big question is whether the timelines can be met. For Uganda, the coming months until next February will packed with politics and given the high political stakes, sometimes the financiers prefer to watch events from an arm’s length.

Project expenditure
The capital expenditure for the project is $3.55b (Shs13 trillion), 70 per cent of which will be raised from international lenders. Each of the party has financial transactional advisers—Standard Chartered Bank for Uganda and Tanzania, Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Ltd and Standard Bank for Total E&P, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC) for Cnooc—on board.

Pipeline deal: Oil firms set date for final investment decision