Uganda's Tamoil gets land for giant fuel reservoir
The Government has secured land to set up a giant fuel reservoir near Kampala to serve Uganda, Rwanda and
Burundi.
Libyan oil company Tamoil is to construct the Kampala Oil Products Terminal and the Eldoret-Kampala oil pipeline
extension project at $ 250 mm. Work on the terminal and pipeline is expected to start in April after the Government
handed over the land to Tamoil officials during a ceremony.
Ben Twodo, the commissioner for petroleum in the ministry of energy and mineral development, said work had been
pending since 2007 due to a land ownership wrangle. However, the disputing sides, Mulowooza and Brothers and N. Shana
Company signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government that approved the developments on the land.
The Tamoil Uganda chairman, Habib Kagimu, said the oil pipeline would end at the terminal before it could be extended
to Rwanda and Burundi, once the feasibility studies were concluded. Kagimu said when completed, the cost of
transporting fuel from Kenya intoUganda would reduce, thus lowered fuel prices.
The land located at Namwabula in Mawokoota County, Mpigi district, is 360 km from Eldoret and measures 1 sq
mile.
Ahmed Elgembri, the Tamoil East Africa project manager said the terminal would have 24 installed reservoir tanks an
optimum capacity of 160 mm litres of oil products. Works to level the site commence on April 15 for 15 months.
