Uganda

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Uganda
Population:	31mn.
GNI, $ :	10.5bn.
Debt:	1.5bn.
Overview:	Irish oil company Tullow has said that it is keen to sell out its interests in rich oil properties on Lake Albert, and Chinese oil companies are already lining up to gain a foothold in one of Africa’s newest oil producers.

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Vol 3 No 11
September 2010

Queueing up for Lake Albert's oil

Indian and Chinese companies have joined the race for Uganda's oil assets in the Lake Albert Basin, where at least 2 billion barrels of oil have been discovered. Opportunities have arisen since President Yoweri Museveni's government is using the transfer ...

Vol 3 No 4
February 2010

Tullow takes Lake Albert

The Ugandan government has approved Tullow’s bid for Heritage’s stakes in Lake Albert, allowing the Irish company to work with CNOOC

Vol 2 No 12
October 2009

The race to give Museveni what he wants

In Uganda, the China National Offshore Oil Corporation has taken the pole position in discussions to buy out part of Irish oil company Tullow's interests in more than one billion barrels of reserves found under Lake Albert. With productive acreage to ...

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