Uganda Approves Construction of 898-Mile Crude Pipeline. Uganda approved an application to build an 898-mile (1,445-km) pipeline (https://pgjonline.com/news/2023/january/uganda-approves-construction-for-898-mile-crude-pipeline-costing-35-billion) designed to transport the country's crude oil to international markets. The $3.5 billion pipeline (https://pgjonline.com/news/2023/january/uganda-approves-construction-for-898-mile-crude-pipeline-costing-35-billion), planned by a company controlled TotalEnergies, will run from Uganda's oilfields in the west to a port on Tanzania's Indian Ocean coast. The cabinet approval for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Company Ltd. (EACOP) project is a major step forward for development of the nation's oilfields, which has been stalled for two decades due to a lack of infrastructure and rifts between the government and oil companies.
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