{"id":5390,"date":"2016-11-14T11:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T11:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=5390"},"modified":"2017-01-24T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T15:32:49","slug":"uganda-tanzania-pipeline-to-be-built-by-multiple-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/uganda-tanzania-pipeline-to-be-built-by-multiple-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda-Tanzania pipeline to be built by multiple contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania and Uganda have agreed to award the construction of the crude oil pipeline from Hoima to Tanga to multiple contractors in a bid to speed up the project.<\/p>\n<p>In a meeting between Tanzanian President John Magufuli and his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni the two leaders suggested the project might be awarded to up to 6 contractors that would see the pipeline in place within 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suggest we use the design and construct model to speed up implementation of the 1410 kilometer project \u2026 and awards contracts to five or six different sections of the pipeline at the same time,\u201d President John Magufuli is quoted saying.<\/p>\n<p>This new agreement is a follow up of a <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2fPfx20\">MoU<\/a> by the Joint Pipeline Development Committee (JPDC) and project steering committee consisting of energy officials from Uganda and Tanzania in October to fast track the implementation the implementation of the joint Crude oil export Pipeline from Hoima to Tanga port.<\/p>\n<p>The two groups led by the respective ministers Prof Sospeter Muhongo and Irene Muloni also signed a memorandum of understanding to remove hurdles from the project including national and local government consents, project route, land access as well as environmental and social aspects.<\/p>\n<p>The 1410 kilometer project being funded by Total and will enable the joint venture partners recently awarded <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2byNCk9\">production licenses<\/a> France\u2019s Total, London-listed Tullow Oil and China\u2019s CNOOC able to evacuate about 200,000 barrels a day.<\/p>\n<p>The project estimated to cost about $4 billion is expected to offer approximately 15,000 construction jobs and between 1,000 and 2,000 permanent jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania and Uganda have agreed to award the construction of the crude oil pipeline from Hoima to Tanga to multiple contractors in a bid to speed up the project. In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/uganda-tanzania-pipeline-to-be-built-by-multiple-contractors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3902,"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":[476,538,1179,5109,5460,2042,4202,2466,2533,2571,2603,2754],"class_list":["post-5390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-cnooc","tag-crude-oil","tag-irene-muloni","tag-john-magufuli","tag-joint-pipeline-development-committee","tag-pipeline","tag-prof-sospeter-muhongo","tag-tanzania","tag-total","tag-tullow-oil","tag-uganda","tag-yoweri-museveni","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kenya-Uganda-pipeline-design-1.jpg?fit=900%2C610&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1oW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6180,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/work-begins-east-african-crude-oil-pipeline\/","url_meta":{"origin":5390,"position":0},"title":"Work Begins on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline","author":"","date":"August 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"President Yoweri Museveni and his Tanzania counterpart Joseph Pombe Magufuli have commissioned the construction of the 1,445km-long East African crude oil pipeline from Hoima district in Uganda to the Tanzanian port of Tanga. 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