Kigoogwa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The recent incident involving a fuel tanker fire in Kigoogwa town, along the Kampala-Gulu highway, has highlighted serious shortcomings in local health and evacuation services. The accident occurred on Tuesday last week when a tanker, registered as UAM 292Q, overturned and caught fire. Several …
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Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police have confirmed that a turn boy of a fuel tanker that exploded in Kyanamira sub county, Kabale district along Mbarara-Kabale highway on Saturday was burnt to ashes. The Nissan semi trailer fuel tanker registration number UAQ 912N/ SSD 351Y rolled down at Kyanamira …
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KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Fuel dealers in Uganda anticipate that the involvement of the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) as the sole importer of fuel will lead to improved pump prices. Geoffrey Elyanu, the Supplies and Distribution Manager for VIVO Energy Uganda, expressed this expectation during a media engagement …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Vivo Energy Uganda, the country’s leading distributor and marketer of Shell-branded fuels and lubricants, has reaffirmed its commitment to maintaining product quality for its customers despite the change in importing entities from the Kenyan government to the Ugandan government through the Uganda National Oil …
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Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government will soon conduct an operation against fuel station operators who have violated the set establishment standards. These are mainly those that have constructed stations in road reserves and closer to each other than what the regulations stipulate, according to the ministry of Energy and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda kicked off consultations with Tanzania to allow the Uganda National Oil Company to market and handle fuel imports. The latest move comes after declined to issue Uganda National Oil Corporation (UNOC) a license to operate as a local oil marketer. Energy And Mineral Development …
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NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | Researchers in energy say the just-ended UN Climate Summit will be remembered as one of the most important moments in the UNI fight against Climate Change. They have indicated it was quite decisive because of the historical results with a wave of new deals …
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Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Following Uganda’s decision to bypass Kenyan oil middlemen and import fuel directly into the country, leading Kenyan politician Raila Odinga has come out with a statement, that has several serious allegations, that is run in full below. ******* STATEMENT BY THE RT. HON. RAILA …
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Former Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) Commissioner Customs Dicksons C Kateshumbwa has taken to X (twitter) to weigh the options after President Yoweri Museveni pushed for the country to import fuel directly into the country and not going through Kenyan middlemen. Here is a summary of his thread, titled “Petroleum Supply …
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Analysts hail UNOC’s ambitions but reality of fuel business complex COVER STORY | ISAAC KHISA | The decision by the government of Uganda to directly enter the oil importation and cut out middle players has blown a cloud of uncertainty in the US$2 billion business that is the heartbeat of the …
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