TotalEnergies, which is already exploring for oil in the Albertine Grabben is seeking a licence to construct the Tilenga Liquefied Petroleum Gas Facility from where it will produce 80,000 tonnes of gas per year.
French oil giant TotalEnergies has followed their Chinese counterpart CNOOC Uganda Limited in seeking to produce Liquefied Petroleum Gas from the Albertine Grabben.
TotalEnergies, which is already exploring for oil in the Albertine Graben, at the end of January 31 wrote to the Minister of Energy, seeking a licence to construct the Tilenga Liquefied Petroleum Gas Facility from where it will produce 80,000 tonnes of gas per year.
The Minister, Ruth Nankabirwa last week published a legal notice, calling for the public or directly affected parties, and local governments in areas where the Tilenga Petroleum Gas facility is to be located to inspect documents submitted by TotalEnergies.
The law provides that the affected parties can object to the granting of the license to construct the facility. The hearing in the TotalEnergies application is open up to the end of February.
Nankabirwa’s legal notice came just a week after she had granted construction and operation licenses to CNOOC Uganda Limited to put up a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) facility as part of the Central Processing Facility at the Kingfisher oil fields in Kikuube district.
Steven Enach, the Manager of Refining, Gas Processing and Utilisation at the Petroleum Authority of Uganda (PAU) has in the past indicated that Uganda will produce 100,000kg of liquified petroleum gas (LPG) annually at the peak of commercial oil production from the Albertine Graben.
Enach indicated that the discovery of commercially viable oil and gas deposits in Uganda presents a great opportunity to further improve the state of the energy sector in the region, and Uganda in particular.
“As per the ongoing engineering design studies, the Refinery Project in Hoima is projected to produce LPG in its product slate. In total, the three projects (Tilenga Project area, Kingfisher Development area and the Refinery) are projected to produce about 330, 000 tons/year of LPG at peak,” said Enach.
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