{"id":118327,"date":"2021-04-13T10:53:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T02:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118327"},"modified":"2021-04-13T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T02:53:47","slug":"uganda-tanzania-sign-major-pipeline-project-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118327","title":{"rendered":"Uganda, Tanzania sign major pipeline project agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Uganda-Tanzania-sign-major-pipeline-project-agreement-1230508?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/190\/19083865.295.jpg\" alt=\"The $3.55 billion pipelines could be the longest electrically heated crude oil pipeline in the world\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>The $3.55 billion pipelines could be the longest electrically heated crude oil pipeline in the world<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KAMPALA, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Uganda&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni signed the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project agreement with his Tanzanian counterpart Samia Hassan Suluhu.<br><br>&#8220;The EACOP Tripartite Project Agreement has been signed by all parties with commitment for realization of the Equal project; for the benefit of all people of Uganda and Tanzania in the spirit of East Africa,&#8221; said Sam Kuteesa, Uganda&#8217;s foreign minister.<br><br>The agreement, signed in the Ugandan capital Kampala, paves the way for the construction of a 1,440 km crude oil pipeline from Uganda&#8217;s Albertine region to the Tanzanian seaport of Tanga.<br><br>Extraction will take place at two oil fields: the Kingfisher field, which is operated by China National Offshore Oil Corporation Ltd, and the Tilenga field, operated by France&#8217;s Total S.A.<br><br>Uganda last month suspended the signing of the agreement to mourn the death of then Tanzanian president John Pombe Magufuli.<br><br>The $3.55 billion pipelines could be the longest electrically heated crude oil pipeline in the world. Once completed, more than 10,000 job opportunities will be created during execution, according to Suluhu.<br><br>Environmental activists say the project poses risks to protected environments, water sources, and wetlands in both countries due to C02 emissions from the burning of oil through the pipeline. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $3.55 billion pipelines could be the longest electrically heated crude oil pipeline in the world KAMPALA, April 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Uganda&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni signed the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project agreement with his Tanzanian counterpart Samia Hassan Suluhu. &#8220;The EACOP Tripartite Project Agreement has been signed by all parties with commitment for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118327"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}