{"id":396009,"date":"2011-04-25T09:07:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T09:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/25\/kenya-uganda-oil-pipeline-project-at-stake\/"},"modified":"2011-04-25T09:07:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T09:07:23","slug":"kenya-uganda-oil-pipeline-project-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/25\/kenya-uganda-oil-pipeline-project-at-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya-Uganda Oil Pipeline Project at Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"50.4813664596\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/173b6588tafrican180.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"The East African (Nairobi)\" title=\"Visit The East African (Nairobi)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jaindi Kisero<\/p>\n<p>25 April 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Political instability in Libya is beginning to take a heavy toll on the progress of the Kenya Uganda oil pipeline \u2014 one of the most critical regional infrastructure projects in East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondence seen by The EastAfrican shows that Kenya and Uganda have now insisted that they will delay any equity injection into the joint venture with Libya\u2019s Tamoil East Africa Ltd until after the project has taken off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>The two governments have also demanded that the Libyans pay off landowners along the way leave of the project.<\/p>\n<p>When the parties first signed a Heads of Agreement in January 2007, the understanding was that Kenya and Uganda would each inject 12.5 per cent in equity into the company.<\/p>\n<p>It was also agreed that the two East African countries would contribute land on the way leave as part of their equity contribution.<\/p>\n<p>In Kenya, the Ministry of Lands has released the compensation schedules for parcels of land along the project\u2019s way-leave to be acquired through easements and outright land acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>The submitted schedule contains about 2,107 formally and informally subdivided plots with an estimated total compensation cost of Ksh520 million ($6.19 million).<\/p>\n<p>The tough conditions given to the Libyans by Nairobi and Kampala are a reflection of growing impatience about a project that was supposed to have been commissioned more than three years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The success of the multimillion-dollar project is especially critical for Kampala, which must urgently prepare to start pumping oil from its yet to be built refinery to Kenya \u2014the largest economy in the region, and destined to be the biggest export market for Uganda\u2019s refined oil.<\/p>\n<p>Following discovery of oil in Uganda, Kampala has demanded major alterations of the original designs for the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>In May 2008, the Libyan company submitted a front end engineering design for a 10-inch diameter uni-directional pipeline that was approved by both Kenya and Uganda the JCC in June 2008.<\/p>\n<p>But Kampala now wants a redesign of the pipeline to provide for future reverse flows between Kenya and an inland refinery Uganda is constructing.<\/p>\n<p>Already, the Libyans have submitted an updated design recommending the construction of a 12-inch diameter reverse flow pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Started with pomp and fanfare and touted as among the top priority infrastructure projects in the region, the pipeline has been dogged by major delays.<\/p>\n<p>While the heads of agreements were signed as far back as January 2007, it has taken an inordinately long period for the Libyans to move to the so-called final investment stage.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201104250316.html\" title=\"Kenya-Uganda Oil Pipeline Project at Stake\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenya-Uganda Oil Pipeline Project at Stake<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Jaindi Kisero 25 April 2011 Political instability in Libya is beginning to take a heavy toll on the progress of the Kenya Uganda oil pipeline \u2014 one of the most critical regional infrastructure projects in East Africa. Correspondence seen by The EastAfrican shows that Kenya and Uganda have now insisted that they will delay any equity injection into the joint venture with Libya\u2019s Tamoil East Africa Ltd until after the project has taken off the ground<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenya-Uganda Oil Pipeline Project at Stake - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/25\/kenya-uganda-oil-pipeline-project-at-stake\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Kenya-Uganda Oil Pipeline Project at Stake - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Jaindi Kisero 25 April 2011 Political instability in Libya is beginning to take a heavy toll on the progress of the Kenya Uganda oil pipeline \u2014 one of the most critical regional infrastructure projects in East Africa. 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