The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) project, a daring $5 billion (about R89bn) initiative that seeks to construct a 1 443km oil pipeline on a 30m-wide corridor stretching from the Hoima District, west of Uganda, to the port of Tanga, on Tanzania’s east coast, has been the subject of criticism by environmental and human rights organisations.
A new report by non-governmental organisation Earth Insight warns of the dire consequences of continued liquefied natural gas (LNG) development worldwide. The report highlights the endangerment of critically important marine ecosystems and species along the Indian Ocean coastline, along with fueling violent conflict in East Africa.
HE discovery of commercial oil and gas in Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda has re-assessed the petroleum prospectivity of East Africa.