By Busiinge George It’s reported that over 15000 heads of cattle being grazed on the refinery land and over 20 people having crop gardens there have been ordered to vacate immediately. Government has directed pastoralists and cultivators who recently invaded the acquired oil refinery land in Kabaale parish, Buseruka sub-county in Hoima district to vacate it within a week. This follows reports that pastoralists who are evicted from northern Uganda are ferrying hundreds of cattle into the oil refinery land for grazing while residents neighboring the same land had turned it into their farm land. Addressing the alleged oil refinery encroachers at Nyamasoga primary school Wednesday afternoon, Major General Sam Okidingi, the commandant Field Artillery Masindi army barracks said all illegal activities in the refinery land must stop within a week. He said this is done to protect the interests of over 38 million Ugandans who are expected to benefit…

The Uganda Chamber of Mines and Petroleum (UCMP) in conjunction with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development will host the fourth Annual Oil & Gas Convention, come April 25-26, 2016. Held under the theme, “Regional Collaboration for First Oil”, the convention will largely focus on the various opportunities that abound in the oil and gas industry as Uganda readies to start production in 2020. After at least, a five year lull, the oil industry has since picked up, following major developments recently. Early this month, Uganda signed the Project Framework Agreement with the Albertine Graben Refinery Consortium (AGRC) – a conglomerate of international companies that will construct the oil refinery in Kabaale, Hoima. This came after Gulf Interstate Engineering, an American firm that carried out the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for the crude export pipeline, released preliminary findings of their study at a public workshop in January, this…