A belated boom : Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, and prospects and risks for oil in East Africa / Luke Patey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patey, Luke A.

Series:

OIES paper ; $v WPM 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Risk management--Africa, East.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum industry and trade--Africa, East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 19 pages)

Other Title:

Belated Boom

A Belated Boom

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, May 2017.

Summary:

This paper examines the development, potential, and main risks facing oil industries in Uganda, Kenya, and South Sudan, as well as plans for regional pipelines in East Africa. It begins in Uganda, the future anchor of the region's oil production, where the development of oil first discovered in 2006 has only recently moved past a number of tax, regulatory, and contract disputes between the Ugandan government and international oil companies. Second, it reviews Kenya's oil industry, in which political struggles over oil between local communities, country representatives and national leaders remains acute. Third, the paper examines South Sudan's oil industry since its 2011 independence, and how regional disputes and conflict with Sudan over pipeline transit fees, and the outbreak of civil war in late 2013, have slowed production in an already ageing oil industry. Finally, the paper details and examines the shifting positions the region's governments and international oil companies have taken on developing critical new pipelines in East Africa, and the merits and challenges of different possible routes.