{"id":5023,"date":"2016-08-08T11:08:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T11:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=5023"},"modified":"2017-01-24T20:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T20:24:56","slug":"ugandas-president-visits-chads-oil-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/ugandas-president-visits-chads-oil-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s President visits Chad\u2019s Oil Refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Yoweri Museveni who arrived in the Chadian capital N’Djamena on a two-day official visit during which he will also attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Idriss Deby to his fifth term in office also undertook to visit the country\u2019s refinery as his country sets its eyes on building a similar facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Museveni, accompanied by Chads Minister for Petroleum, Mines and Energy, Hon. Dj\u00e9rassem Le B\u00e9madjiel was flown by chopper to visit Chads Djarmaya Oil Refinery for a tour of the facilities.<\/p>\n

He was accompanied by Uganda\u2019s engineers; Irene Batebe the Principal Petroleum Engineer in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development (Petroleum Directorate) and Refinery Engineer Benjamin Ariho.<\/p>\n

Djarmaya\u2019s refinery can produce 20,000 barrels per day (bpd) of gasoline, kerosene, and heating oil and has its feedstock supplied from the Ronier and Mimosa oilfields in Chad\u2019s southern Bongor region via a 193 mile-long pipeline.<\/p>\n

The Djarmaya refinery also produces 40 megawatts of electricity which is utilized by both the facility and the city.<\/p>\n

State-owned China National Petroleum Corporation International (CNPCI), a subsidiary of the state-owned China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) owns 60 percent of the refinery while owns the Chadian government 40 percent.<\/p>\n

Chad became an oil-producing nation in 2003 with the completion of a $4bn (\u00a32.6bn) pipeline linking its oilfields to terminals on the Atlantic coast.<\/p>\n

Uganda plans to build a\u00a060,000 barrels per day refinery in Hoima with the government currently holding talks with the alternate bidder South Korea’s\u00a0SK Engineering and Construction after Russia’s\u00a0RT Global Resources<\/a> pulled out<\/a> of the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI congratulate President Idriss Deby for his forsight of building this refinery. Some countries produce petroleum but don\u2019t refine it. He has done the right thing, now Chad produces oil and consumes it. In Uganda, we have some oil wells and that is the route we are taking,\u201d Museveni\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

Over 15 Heads of State are expected to attend tomorrows inauguration ceremony including Benin\u2019s’ President Patrice Talon, Burkina Faso’s Rock Mark Kabore, Ethiopia\u2019s\u2019 Hailemariam Desalegn, Rwandan President Paul Kagame and that of Equatorial Guinea Theodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo among others.<\/p>\n

President Debby and his party\u00a0the Patriotic Movement of Salvation won a 5th term in elections held in April 2016 in a first round vote garnering 61.5 percent of ballots cast against 12.8 percent for his nearest rival Saleh Kebzabo, according to official results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Yoweri Museveni who arrived in the Chadian capital N’Djamena on a two-day official visit during which he will also attend the swearing-in ceremony of President Idriss Deby to his … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":5024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[434,457,4951,479,4952,4950,4949,4948,4947,1827,1886,2042,4953,2076,2200,4172,2603],"class_list":["post-5023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-chad","tag-china-national-petroleum-corporation","tag-china-national-petroleum-corporation-international","tag-cnpc","tag-cnpci","tag-djerassem-le-bemadjiel","tag-mines-and-energy","tag-ministry-for-petroleum","tag-ndjamena","tag-oil","tag-oil-refinery","tag-pipeline","tag-president-idriss-deby","tag-president-yoweri-museveni","tag-rt-global-resources","tag-sk-engineering-and-construction","tag-uganda","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/chad-refinery-museveni.jpg?fit=960%2C642&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1j1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13503,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/uganda-unoc-signs-mou-with-sonatrach\/","url_meta":{"origin":5023,"position":0},"title":"UGANDA: UNOC Signs MOU with Sonatrach","author":"","date":"March 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"UGANDA and Algeria have signed an MOU regarding oil and gas, resources found in both countries. \u00a0According to the United States Department of Commerce, Algeria \u201chas the tenth-largest proven natural gas reserves globally, is the world\u2019s fourth-largest gas exporter, and has the world\u2019s third-largest untapped shale gas resources. \u00a0It also\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Countries"","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UNOC-Sonatrach-MoU.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UNOC-Sonatrach-MoU.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UNOC-Sonatrach-MoU.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/UNOC-Sonatrach-MoU.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":853,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/museveni-uhuru-kagame-talk-oil\/","url_meta":{"origin":5023,"position":1},"title":"Museveni, Uhuru, Kagame Talk Oil","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"April 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Story by RedPepper Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Kenya\u2019s Uhuru Kenyatta and Rwandan President Paul Kagame last night held private talks in the capital Kigali over what sources say, was oil in Uganda. 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