The Uganda - Tanzania East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), which is 1,443 km long, is already 62% complete. Once finished, it is expected to be the longest heated oil pipeline in the world, with the capacity to transport about 216,000 barrels per day.
Please note that Uganda had initially opted to transport its oil through Kenya’s LAPSSET corridor. Uganda’s oil is of the same quality as Turkana’s - waxy and heavy. However, disagreements over costs, especially compensation for “landowners” (a process that takes about 24 months to complete), as well as concerns about security, poor infrastructure, difficult terrain, and politics, caused Kenya to lose the pipeline deal to Tanzania, which offered a better package - TZ govt btw owns all the land so story ya kufidia “landlords” was one of the reasons UG chose TZ.
Now, allow me to make your blood boil: the proposed Turkana–Lamu pipeline, about 850 km long, was projected to be completed by 2023 at the latest. Yet to date nothing has been done. It has been delay after delay, even after millions of shillings were spent on preparatory work, research, and feasibility studies.
To make matters worse, in January this year the “brightest president” in the history of Kenya decided to dissolve the LAPSSET Corridor Development Authority (LCDA), the agency established to oversee development of the LAPSSET infrastructure project.
LCDA is what experts call a “specialised authority” that is a government agency created and staffed with technical experts to handle a specific sector or major project, and typically dissolved once the project is complete. But in his wisdom, our most educated president chose to dissolve the LCDA before the project had even started.
A pipeline is a civil engineering project. Why did you compare it to LAPSSET instead of KPC’s last project? Or are you just doing that women’s whining?
