Uganda Pushes Oil-Refinery Start to 2022 as Project Plan Delayed
- New date will set back nation’s ambitions to cut fuel imports
- Oil-field production still due to begin in 2020, minister says
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Uganda’s planned oil refinery, due to process the country’s first crude output, may start two years behind schedule after project studies were delayed.
The front-end engineering design, or FEED, initially due for completion last year, has only just begun, Energy Minister Irene Muloni said Wednesday. The delay to startup -- now seen in 2022 -- will set back Uganda’s plans to reduce fuel imports and start exporting to neighbors.