Production licences in sight, but Ugandan discussions drag on over pipeline route

Tullow Oil is expecting to receive production licences for its Ugandan fields by year-end, though the issue of pipeline routing is likely to hold up the next stage of development. The company has submitted a field development plan for Uganda, and expects to submit a similar plan for its fields in Kenya’s South Lokichar Basin by the end of December. Tullow vice-president African business Tim O’Hanlon told the opening session of Global Pacific & Partners’ Africa Upstream conference in Cape Town on 27 October the project had made “steady progress” over the past year