Uganda Government Shortlists 16 firms in First Petroleum Licensing Round
The government of Uganda has announced that it has concluded the evaluation of Applications for Qualification from the 17 firms that submitted the Applications following a successful First Licensing Round for Petroleum Exploration, Development and Production.
According to Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Energy & Mineral Development Dr. F.A Kabagambe-Kaliisa the16 of the 17 firms that submitted the Applications met the evaluation criteria as spelt out in the Request for Qualification document.
“The firms were evaluated based on their technical competence, financial capabilities, legal qualifications as well as National Content and Health Safety and Environment track record,” Kabagambe-Kaliisa said.
The 16 will from here proceed to the Request for Proposal stage of this licensing round.
The 16 successful firms include:
- African Exploration Venture (JV comprising of Rapid Africa Energy Pty Limited and Africa Energy SA Corp), South Afric
- African Global Resources (JV comprising of Telconet Capital Limited, RT-Global Resources LLC and JSC Tatneft),Russia
- Armour Energy Limited, Australia
- Brightoil Petroleum (Uganda) Limited, Hong Kong/China
- Glint Energy, LLC, USA
- MDC Oil and Gas Holding Company, LLC, United Arab Emirates
- Niger Delta Petroleum Resources Limited, Nigeria
- Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Videsh Limited, India
- Oranto Petroleum International Limited, Nigeria
- Petoil (Uganda) Limited, Turkey
- Petrica Energy AS, Norway
- SASOL Exploration and Production International Limited, South Africa
- Swala Energy (Uganda) Limited, Australia
- Rift Energy Uganda Limited, Canada
- Tullow Uganda Operations Pty Limited, Ireland
- Waltersmith Petroman Oil Limited, Nigeria
The Ministry of Energy & Mineral Development now says it will in due course issue the Request for Proposal and the Modal Production Sharing Agreement documents to the qualified firms to bid for blocks or a block of their interest after the mandatory acquisition of data in the blocks or a block through the physical Data Room at the Directorate of Petroleum in Entebbe.
The six biddable blocks comprise of the Ngassa (410 Km2) in Hoima District, Taitai & Karuka (565 Km2) in Buliisa District, Ngaji (895 Km2) in Rukungiri & Kanungu Districts, Mvule (344 Km2) in Moyo and Yumbe Districts together with Turaco (425 Km2) and Kanywantaba (344 Km2) in Ntoroko District.