Construction of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), 1,443km long, crude oil export pipeline system, is scheduled to start next month, a key Tanzanian official has announced.
Palamagamba Kabudi, Tanzania’s Foreign Affairs minister, told journalists that actual construction of the project would start in the second week of March 2021.
The $3.5Billion EACOP project is the midstream part of the full, basin wide Uganda oil development, which has been on the drawing board for close to a decade. It will, from Hoima in Western Uganda and head in a southeasterly direction to end up in Tanga, a Tanzanian port town on the edge of the Indian Ocean. The line will pump 216,000Barrels of Oil Per Day at peak.
Mr. Kabudi, who returned from France where he had meetings with officials of the French major TOTAL, operator of the pipeline project, was widely quoted by local Tanzanian media on the issue. “While in France I held talks with TOTAL’s director who assured me that all is set for the construction of the pipeline to kick off in the second week of next month,” he told a press conference, specifically mentioning Nicolas Terraz, TOTAL’s Vice President for E&P Africa, as assuring him that the construction would kick off in March 2021.
Source: Africa Oil and Gas Report
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