THE #LJfiles: Northern Corridor Integration Projects summit in Kampala agrees to develop two pipeline routes

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President Museveni opens 13th NCIP Summit

SATURDAY, April 23, 2016
2.30PM

BREAKING NEWS: the 13th Summit of the Northern Corridor Integration Projects (NCIP) has agreed to the building of two Oil pipe lines - to Tanga and to Lamu.

“If puppies are young, you don’t know which one will be a better hunter, so you feed all of them and when they grow you see which one emerges the best hunter,” host president Yoweri Museveni told the summit.

Uganda foreign minister Sam Kutesa however told AFP that most of Uganda's oil will pass through Tanzania.

The Joint Communique stated that:

"On Oil Refinery Development, the Summit welcomed the decision by United Republic of Tanzania to invest in the shareholding of the Uganda Oil refinery project."

"On Crude Oil Pipeline, the Summit agreed that two crude oil pipelines from Lokichar to Lamu and another from Hoima to Tanga will be developed by Kenya and Uganda respectively.

In a final communique, the summit directed on 15 issues of interest:

Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Development
ICT Infrastructure Development
Oil Refinery Development
Crude Oil Pipeline
Political Federation
Project Financing
Power Generation, Transmission and Interconnectivity
Air Space Management
Human Resource Capacity Building
Commodities Exchange
Land for the Infrastructure Corridor
Immigration, Tourism, Trade, Labour and Services
Single Customs Territory (SCT)
Defence, Peace and Security Cooperation
Private Sector

COPY OF 13th Summit Northern Corridor Integration Projects 2016 by The Independent Magazine

FULL communique will be posted shortly.

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12.30PM

Oil Pipeline on the agenda

Uganda hosts the 13th Summit of the Northern Corridor Integration Projects today.

The three presidents, Yoweri Museveni, Paul Kagame and Uhuru Kenyatta are expected to state their agreed position today on the building of a pipeline from western Uganda to the Indian Ocean coast.

Reports indicate the route Hoima to Tanzania’s Tanga Port is going to be agreed on instead of Hoima-kichar-Lamu direction through Kenya.

Uganda and Kenya officials have been in talks in the past fortnight, reviewing the outcomes of fact finding missions on the economic viability of all oil pipeline routes, one backed by a Gulf Interstate Engineering study and French giant Total and the other supported by the Toyota Tsusho feasibility study backed by Tullow Oil Plc.