East Africa goes for two oil pipelines despite low crude volumes

Welder mounts in the trunk pipeline electrochemical protection

There is perhaps no going back for Kenya and Uganda, with the two countries bent on taking different routes in building a crude oil pipeline. This is despite consensus that one project could hugely benefit from economies of scale compared to two.

The move follows Sunday’s signing of agreements between Uganda, Tanzania and Total Oil, which paves way for the construction of the crude oil pipeline that will stretch from Hoima in Western Uganda, where the oil fields are located to the Port of Tanga on the Tanzanian coast.