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About East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is a proposed 1,443-kilometer pipeline that will transport oil from Hoima, Uganda to the port of Tanga in Tanzania.

Approximately 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil have been discovered in the Albertine Graben, the basin of Lake Albert, on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Extraction will take place at two oil fields: the Kingfisher field, operated by China National Offshore Oil Corporation Ltd (CNOOC Ltd), and the Tilenga field, operated by Total S.A.

Once extracted, the oil will be partly refined in Uganda to supply the local market and partly exported to the international market via the EACOP. If completed, it will be the longest heated pipeline in the world.

Both the extraction sites and the EACOP pose serious environmental and social risks to protected wildlife areas, water sources and communities throughout Uganda and Tanzania. As such, the project is facing significant local community and civil society resistance.

See BankTrack's EACOP Finance Risk briefing papers for more information:

  • Finance Risk Briefing, November 2020
  • Finance Risk Update, August 2021 
  • Finance Risk Update No. 2, January 2022
  • Finance Risk Update No. 3, June 2022

Latest developments

European Parliament passes emergency resolution on EACOP impacts

2022-09-15 00:00:00

Final Investment Decision signed on EACOP and Tilenga projects

2022-02-08 00:00:00

Why this profile?

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is a proposed 1,445-kilometer pipeline from Hoima, Uganda to the port of Tanga in Tanzania. Construction of the pipeline threatens to enable the opening up of critical ecosystems including Murchison Falls National Park to oil extraction. In addition, it is expected to cause large-scale displacement of communities and pose grave risks to protected environments, water sources and wetlands in both Uganda and Tanzania.

What must happen

This project presents unacceptable risks to local people through physical displacement and threats to incomes and livelihoods; unacceptable risks to water, biodiversity and natural habits; as well as representing a new source of carbon emissions the planet can ill afford. As such banks should avoid financing this project and instead seek opportunities to finance genuine renewable infrastructure to help meet the region’s energy needs in a clean and rights-compatible manner in the decades to come.

Impacts

Impact on human rights and communities

Large scale land acquisition and resettlement: Land acquisition is needed for both pipeline construction and associated infrastructure is necessary on both a temporary and permanent basis, as the pipeline route traverses a number of heavily populated districts in both Uganda and Tanzania. In total, 5,300 hectares of land will be needed for construction and operation of the pipeline, which means that around 13,000 households will lose land. Of these 13,000, roughly 200 households in Uganda and 331 households in Tanzania will have to be resettled, and approximately 3,200 to 3,500 households in Uganda and 9513 households in Tanzania will be economically displaced, which means they will lose land (Oxfam, 2020). According to the Resettlement Action Plans (RAPs) for the project, a total of 86,000 individuals in Ugandan and Tanzania will be affected by the project.

A further 4,865 households (accounting for 31,716 individuals according to Total’s own figures - see the RAP) are affected by the Tilenga oil project. In sum, both projects are expected to directly impact the land of around 118,000 individuals. 

The valuation and compensation process for the land to be acquired for the project has been characterised by delays, insufficient provision of information to communities, harassment and irregularities. Affected people have stated that they had only a basic understanding of the project’s stakeholder engagement process and felt that the project subcontractors had pressured them into signing valuation forms without ensuring their full understanding of this process. They further reported that they did not receive copies of the documents they signed and that they were forced to sign the documents in pencil. Local community representatives also report having been harassed, forced to sign different forms without clear explanation, stamp and sign empty forms, and fill valuation forms using a pencil but sign in ink.

Impacts of delayed compensation: Cut-off dates, after which compensation will not be paid for new permanent developments on land valued and demarcated for the project, were announced between April and June 2019 in Uganda, and between March and September 2018 in Tanzania. Ever since the cut-off dates were announced, affected households live in uncertainty. While growing seasonal crops is allowed, some households are afraid to lose their harvest if they have to vacate the land at short notice. Others have claimed they are not allowed to farm cash crops. Many households have decided to give up on agriculture (Oxfam, 2020 p59). Local organisations report that people are afraid to put up new developments such as graves and latrines on their land. 

Two years after announcing the cut-off dates in Tanzania and one year in Uganda, compensation has still not been paid, and there is no certainty around when it will be paid as the process will only recommence once a Final Investment Decision is made. The delays in paying compensation and the restrictions on using the land have severely impacted people's livelihoods and the continuation of everyday life.

Threats to human rights defenders and journalists: Members of civil society and journalists who speak up about the social and environmental consequences of among others EACOP and the Tilenga project have been intimidated and even arrested on different occasions.

  • In December 2019, two defenders who testified in the trial against Total in a court in France on December 12th 2019 were harassed upon their return to Uganda. Community leader Jelousy Mugisha was arrested and questioned for nearly nine hours at Kampala Airport, and unknown men attempted to break into farmer Fred Mwesigwa’s house twice.
  • In September 2020, three journalists and six environmental activists were arrested in Hoima, Uganda. They had warned about the impacts of EACOP and the Tilenga project on the forest. The police department spoke publicly of a “preventive arrest”, stating: “we want to make sure they don’t have that demonstration today”. 
  • In May 2021 a Ugandan human rights defender and an Italian journalist were arrested in Uganda's Buliisa district while they documented the human rights abuses meted out against the Tilenga oil project-affected communities.
  • In August 2021, several civil society groups were suspended for spurious reasons, in a move described as “political persecution.”
  • In October 2021, several instances of arrests and judicial harassment occurred, detailed here by ProtectDefenders.eu. This included the arrest and later release of six members of AFIEGO, and representatives of the Oil and Gas Human Rights Defenders Association OGHRA.
  • In October 2022, nine university students were arrested during a demonstration in support of the European Union (EU) parliament resolution calling for the delay of the development of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). They were granted bail on October 10. 

Impacts on livelihoods: Oil extraction is expected to have profound impacts on livelihoods, including for those who are reliant on agriculture, livestock rearing, and fishing in Lake Albert, where oil extraction will occur. 

The pipeline poses a threat to critical sources of water. Approximately 460 km of the pipeline will be within the freshwater basin of Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest lake, which directly supports the livelihoods of more than 40 million people in the region. The pipeline also crosses the Kamugenyi, Wambabya, Kanywabarogo, and Kifenyi rivers, and the Kijubya and Lwemido swamps in Uganda. In Tanzania, water sources the pipeline will cross include the Kagera, Wembere, Pangani and Sigi rivers, and the water dam in Mpera village.. 

Oil spills are not unlikely to happen in the future as they have already occurred upstream, leading to the pollution of the water sources so many people depend on. The pipeline poses significant risks of degrading or polluting these water sources where pipes are buried under them. Rather than using horizontal directional drilling to cross watercourses, which is considered industry best practice, Total and its partners have opted for the lowest cost option, open cut trenching, for almost all water crossings. 

Impacts on tourism: The region’s thriving tourism sector is a source of livelihood and pride to many in East Africa. This includes the Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda’s largest park and a popular tourist destination, where 40% of Lake Albert’s oil is located. Tanzania, where 1,149 kilometres of the pipeline will be built and operated, is a country heavily dependent on tourism and on its wetland ecosystem for transport, fishing, agro-pastoral activities, hydrological processes and irrigation. For this reason the possibility of a pipeline leak leading to degradation of these key ecosystems, protected areas and wildlife habitats is not only an environmental threat, but a severe socio-economic one as well. Employment benefits brought by the pipeline project (expected to provide a total of 5,000 jobs of which only 300 will be permanent) is far overshadowed by the potential loss of jobs in the tourism sector and the social, environmental and socio-economic costs of disruption of those ecosystems resulting from the project.

Oxfam’s Human Rights Impact Assessment already points to people having limited access to information on employment opportunities or even being denied employment in the initial stages of the project as the companies work through sub-contractors, drivers, and service providers from Kampala, not from local communities.  

Gender aspects: Oil extraction often causes disproportionate impacts on women, who often carry the burden of relocation and change in society while not benefiting from new employment opportunities. The gender analysis commissioned by Oxfam describes several possible impacts particular to or more likely to affect women. With regard to income and work, impacts include a potential loss of income when women lose land or when men capture the project benefits and compensation. Oxfam’s Human Rights Impact Assessment of the project documents that “respondents in Uganda felt that women were excluded during land acquisition processes” because community consultations were often conducted at times when women would be unable to attend. In addition, during the valuation of the property, contractors require information from the landowners, who are predominantly men, meaning most women are excluded from receiving money. Other impacts include an increased work burden for women if men find work in the project (instead of working on the land for instance), and a consequential loss of power in the household if men start earning cash wages. 

With regard to safety, the project is likely to increase women’s vulnerability to gender based violence and to decrease their ability to move safely in the project areas. These impacts have already been observed in the cases of the West-Africa and Chad-Cameroon oil and gas pipelines. In addition, the project might lead to an increasing in sex work in the project areas. According to ActionAid’s report on the human rights impact of Uganda’s oil sector, the sex trade in Hoima, where extraction at Lake Albert will occur, has significantly increased over the last several years due to the discovery of oil. 

Lastly, the conditions at workers’ camps designed for the project might favour the spread of communicable diseases. These diseases might then be spread to the surrounding communities through local workers or contact between workers and the communities. Since women are typically responsible for the care of family members, they are disproportionately exposed to these diseases. 

Impacts on cultural rights, including for Indigenous Peoples:  Another concern of communities along the pipeline is the loss or destruction of land and structures of spiritual value, such as sacred sites, graves, and cemeteries, and cultural ways of life that are linked to agriculture, fishing, and hunting. These activities rely heavily on access to specific spaces. Communities that are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of the EACOP project are the Barbaig, Sandawe, Ndorobo, Maasai, Akie, and Taturu – Indigenous tribes that depend on nature for their livelihoods, and the Bagungu, who identify as Indigenous, who reside in different parts of the Albertine region along the shores of Lake Albert.   

Impact on climate

Climate change: 
A 2022 study by the Climate Accountability Institute (CAI) finds the total emissions attributed to the 25-year operation of the pipeline totals 379 million tonnes CO2 (MtCO2). At peak pipeline crude oil flow, in years three through six, attributed emissions total 34.8 MtCO2/yr. This sum is significantly greater than the combined emissions of Uganda and Tanzania, at a time when the world’s scientists are telling us that new fossil fuel developments need to stop if we are to tackle the climate crisis.

The EACOP ESIAs estimates only the carbon dioxide emissions from the pipeline’s construction and operation. However, the CAI study shows this is a mere 1.8% of total, with far larger emissions from maritime transport, the refining the oil into petroleum products, and from the fuels being used as intended by consumers. Further, these emissions assume that the EACOP will only be used for transporting oil from the Kingfisher and Tilenga oil fields.

A report from the Carbon Tracker Initiative has also made clear that several of Total and CNOOC’s projects in Uganda are incompatible with the Paris Agreement. 

Impact on nature and environment

Biodiversity, wildlife and protected nature areas: Extraction at the oil fields in Albertine Graben will most directly impact the Murchison Falls National Park, posing a serious threat to biodiversity and rare and endangered species. Moreover, important tributaries of the Nile flow nearby. Communities expressed their concerns over the possibility of oil spills and other pollution affecting the river and having impacts as distant as North Africa and leading to an increase in cross-border conflicts.

Nearly 2,000 square kilometres of protected wildlife habitats will be negatively impacted by the EACOP project. Although the official EACOP route starts in Hoima, which lies outside the Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda, a feeder pipeline will be constructed that will run from the Tilenga oil field which is partly situated in the National Park to the EACOP starting point. Another feeder pipeline will encroach on the vulnerable Bugoma Forest Reserve, home to large groups of Eastern chimpanzees. 

From Hoima, EACOP subsequently runs through, and will destroy swathes of, the Taala Forest Reserve, a large savanna reserve and an important biodiversity conservation site. The potential loss of forest cover involved in constructing the EACOP is particularly problematic considering Uganda is already losing about 90,000 hectares of forest per year.

In Tanzania, the pipeline will run through even more (protected) areas crucial for biodiversity including the Biharamulo Game Reserve, an IUCN Category IV site, and Wembere Steppe Key Biodiversity Area. Biharamulo Game Reserve hosts a diversity of animals such as lions, buffalo, elands, lesser kudu, impalas, hippos, giraffes, zebras, roan antelopes, sitatungas, sables, aardvarks, and the red colobus monkey. The Wembere steppe is an important place for seasonal birds. In all, some 500km2 of wildlife corridors for the Eastern Chimpanzee and African Elephant are likely to be severely degraded. 

Finally, when reaching the Tanzanian shore, two important Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs), the Pemba-Shimoni-Kisite site and the Tanga Coelacanth site, are at high risk given the huge amount of oil to be transferred offshore at the Tanga Port. These EBSAS host several Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as well as Mangrove Forest Reserves, and coral reefs and waters with dugongs and sea turtles. Pemba Island is also an Alliance for Zero Extinction site.

Ramsar Wetlands: Both components of the project will directly impact several Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance. (The Ramsar Convention is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of wetlands.) Oil extraction will take place within the Murchison Falls-Albert Delta Wetland System, a Ramsar site that plays an important role for wildlife in the National Park and is a spawning ground for indigenous fish species. The pipeline will also run near or through a number of Ramsar sites that lie just west of Lake Victoria, including Mabamba Bay, the Lake Mburo-Nakivali System, the Lake Nabugabo System, the Nabajjuzi System, and the Sango Bay-Musambwa Island (SEI/IGSD 2020, forthcoming). Several potential financiers have policies restricting them from financing operations that adversely impact Ramsar sites.

Pollution and waste: The probability of a pipeline oil spill is high, particularly given that about a third of the pipeline is located in the Lake Victoria watershed, an active seismic area. Indeed there are already several accounts of oil spills or seepages in the Albertine Graben region, including one at the Kiboro hot springs on March 29, 2020.

There is also the risk of the accumulation or disposal of hazardous waste. The pipeline will have to be regularly cleaned, and this cleaning generates hazardous waste containing benzene, a human carcinogen. This waste will have to be either incinerated, which can generate hazardous air pollution, or be disposed of in storage sites at each pumping station, meaning each pumping station would become a hazardous-waste disposal site.    

Water sources: The pipeline poses high risks of freshwater pollution and degradation, particularly to the Lake Victoria basin, which over 400 kilometres of the pipeline will traverse. In addition, constructing and testing the pipeline requires a significant amount of water. The Tanzanian ESIA mentions several large batches of approximately 16,000 m3 of water will be needed for testing. According to the Tanzania ESIA, the pipeline will pass through several regions that receive little rainfall and are already water scarce further threatening the water availability.  

Other impacts

Limited opportunities for stakeholder participation in ESIAs: Formal opportunities  for community members to participate in the impact assessment of the EACOP were limited in both countries. The options for stakeholder participation included commenting on the ESIA scoping report, going to public hearings, and reviewing the final ESIAs. Consultation periods for the ESIAs were very short. In Tanzania the formal consultation period was only 14 days, in Uganda it was 28 days. In addition, despite public hearings and meetings, community members in Uganda as well as Tanzania felt they did not receive sufficient detailed information among others about the environmental and social impacts of the project necessary to engage in meaningful public consultation.

Governance

Bank policies

The following bank investment policies apply to this project:
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
csr policies
2021-01-14 00:00:00

Management of environmental risks

Date listed represents date as accessed on website
2021-01-14 00:00:00 | Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
Standard Bank
csr policies
2019-04-26 00:00:00

Environmental and social management system

2019-04-26 00:00:00 | Standard Bank

Applicable norms and standards

China Green Credit Directive
Equator Principles
IFC Performance Standard 1: Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts
IFC Performance Standard 2: Labor and Working Conditions
IFC Performance Standard 3: Resource Efficiency and Pollution Prevention
IFC Performance Standard 4: Community Health, Safety, and Security
IFC Performance Standard 5: Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement
IFC Performance Standard 6: Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resources
IFC Performance Standard 7: Indigenous Peoples
IFC Performance Standard 8: Cultural Heritage
International Labour Organization Convention 169
OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
Ramsar Convention
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
United Nations Global Compact

Timeline

European Parliament passes emergency resolution on EACOP impacts

2022-09-15 00:00:00

The European Parliament adopts a groundbreaking resolution that officially recognises the disastrous consequences for both human rights and the climate due to the construction of TotalEnergies’ East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), and the associated Tilenga oil extraction project. The resolution calls for "an end to the extractive activities in protected and sensitive ecosystems, including the shores of Lake Albert," referring to the 132 wells that Total plans to drill into the Murchison Falls National Park, and to the numerous protected ecosystems which the 50°C heated EACOP pipeline will cross. It also urges Total to take one year before launching the project to explore alternative routes and alternative projects based on renewable energies for better economic development.

Final Investment Decision signed on EACOP and Tilenga projects

2022-02-08 00:00:00

On 1st February 2022 Total and its partners announced their Final Investment Decision (FID) for the Tilenga and EACOP projects, committing to a total investment of USD 10 billion. However, activists opposed to the pipelines say there is still a long way to go for the project to be realized, as partners are yet to reach financial close on the EACOP pipeline.

AFIEGO staff arrested in Government attempt to silence EACOP critics

2021-10-28 00:00:00

On Friday October 22nd, six staff members of AFIEGO, a partner with BankTrack in the #StopEACOP campaign, were arrested in Uganda. The staff included AFIEGO CEO Dickens Kamugisha, Catherine Twongyeirwe, Mercy Nuwamanya, Rachael Amongin, Paul Kato and Patrick Edema. The #StopEACOP coalition made a statement demanding their release, and detailing how the pattern of intimdation faced by the organisation has increased in recent weeks. The six staff were released on bond on the afternoon of Monday 25th October, but still face charges. 

Communities launch complaint to World Bank alleging backdoor support for EACOP

2021-10-14 00:00:00

Three organizations representing thousands of people in Uganda filed a complaint against the World Bank for indirectly backing the EACOP and Kabaale refinery, along with the associated development of oil fields on the shores of Lake Albert. The complaint extensively details how the EACOP fails to comply with the IFC's Performance Standards, which will be essential reading for banks still considering financing the project. 

Download the complaint here; and read Inclusive Development International's Press Release here. 

Host Government Agreement with Tanzania signed

2021-05-21 00:00:00

On 20th May, the Host Government Agreement (HGA) between Tanzania and the EACOP Project Company was signed. See the official announcemnent here. The HGA with Uganda was signed on 11th April. 

Resettlement Action Plan approved by Ugandan government

2021-04-23 00:00:00

On April 23 2021, the government of Uganda approved the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for EACOP. This paves the way for the second phase of the land acquisition process which includes acquiring and securing the rights to demarcated land, and payment of compensation. 

BNP Paribas, Société Générale, and Crédit Agricole rule out financing EACOP

2021-04-21 00:00:00

According to the French newspaper Les Echos, the three French banks have committed not to provide project financing for the Total-led East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). An anonomous source at one of the banks was quoted saying that “The project is too hard to defend”.

Presidents meet to sign project agreements in Entebbe, Uganda

2021-04-11 00:00:00

Several agreements were signed today to pave the way for the Final Investment Decision for the EACOP, as the new Tanzanian President Samia Hassan met with Uganda's re-elected President Yoweri Museveni. 
According to an official statement, three agreements were signed. These were:

  • the Host Government Agreement (HGA) between the Project Company and the government of Uganda; 
  • the Shareholders Agreement, which it was later confirmed gives Total E&P a 62% stake in the project; UNOC 15%; TPDC 15% and CNOOC 8%;
  • the Tariff and Transportation Agreement between the pipeline company and the shippers of Uganda’s crude oil through the pipeline. 
Although press reports indicated the HGA with Tanzania was also signed, this was incorrect; the HGA with Tanzania was later signed on 20th May.

Barclays and Credit Suisse rule out supporting East African Crude Oil Pipeline

2021-03-18 00:00:00

Prominent commercial banks Barclays and Credit Suisse have both declared they will not provide financing for the construction of the world’s biggest heated crude oil pipeline proposed by French oil company Total and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation.

The banks provided statements making clear they will not support the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline after an open letter endorsed by 263 organizations from around the world was sent to 25 banks considered most likely to be approached for financing.

“Barclays does not intend to participate in the financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project,” the British bank said in its response to advocacy from the recently formed global alliance of environmental and human rights organizations. Credit Suisse also confirmed it “is not considering participating in the EACOP project.”

Over 260 organisations call on banks not to finance EACOP - new stopeacop.net campaign website launched.

2021-03-05 00:00:00

On 1st March, 263 community and not-for-profit organisations from around the world urged the CEOs of 25 banks not to participate in loans to fund the construction of the world’s longest heated crude oil pipeline. In an open letter, organisations from 49 countries, including 122 African-based organisations, detail the immense threats that the 1,445-kilometer-long East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) would pose to local communities, water supplies, and biodiversity in Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya.

The open letter was launched alongside a new campaign website for the global #StopEACOP coalition - stopeacop.net. The website will keep track of financial institutions, investors and insurers that have ruled out support for the project and will serve as a campaign hub for further public actions targeting the project’s developers and financial backers.  

Read our news release here.

Ugandan ESIA approved as research suggests deteriorating economics for Uganda's oil

2020-12-04 00:00:00

The Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Ugandan section of the EACOP was approved by Uganda's National Environmetal Management Authority (NEMA) on 3rd December. See NEMA's press announcement here.

The approval comes despite an independent review of the ESIA concluding that a great number of the key concerns raised in its previous advisory report have been insufficiently addressed. There had been no public consultation for the ESIA for the Tanzanian section of the pipeline, as this is not required by Tanzanian law.

The approval followed the release on 2nd December of a report by the London-based Climate Policy Initiative, analysing the impact of a low carbon transition on Uganda’s planned oil industry. The report's key finding is that "since Uganda signed an initial agreement in 2013, the value of Uganda’s oil reserves has fallen more than $40 billion or over 70% to $18.1 billion. Under a low-carbon transition aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement, the value of the oil would drop further, to 88% of its value seven years ago.​"

Also on December 2nd, UK Export Finance (UKEF), the country's Export Credit Agency, revealed in response to a parliamentary question that it had been approached regarding finance for the EACOP project, but no decision has yet been made. The French, German and Italian ECAs are also reported to have been approached ($).

Four African NGOs challenge EACOP by filing a case at the East African Court of Justice

2020-11-24 00:00:00

On November 6 2020, Centre for Food and Adequate Living Rights (CEFROHT) and the Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO) both based in Kampala; the Nairobi-based Natural Justice-Kenya and the Center for Strategic Litigation based in Zanzibar filed a case at the East African Court of Justice asking the Court to order Uganda and Tanzania to ensure that, “prior to any similar project, the following are conducted; climate change impact assessment; Human rights impact assessment; and meaningful, effective and transparent public consultations ensuring robust community and broad public participation.” According to the organisations, the EACOP project is yet to conduct an environmental and social impact assessment as required by both the Eeast African Community Treaty and other international laws. The organisations want the construction of the pipeline stopped until the matter is heard and determined.

Government of Tanzania and Total sign pact to initiate Host Government Agreement for EACOP

2020-10-27 00:00:00

On the 26th of October, the government of Tanzania and Total signed a pact to initiate the Host Government Agreement (HGA). This brings the project one step closer to reaching a Final Investment Decision. Negotations between senior government technocrats and representatives of Total lasted three weeks and covered among other things project authorizations, land rights, health and safety, the environment and labour standards. Other pending agreements are the Shareholders Agreement (SHA), Ports Agreement (PA) and Land Lease Agreement (LLA). 

Journalists and activists arrested

2020-09-17 00:00:00

Three journalists and six environmental activists were arrested by police in Hoima, Uganda, on 15th and 16 September 2020. They had come to denounce the destruction of one of the country's largest forest reserves and the risks posed by the development of the oil industry in Western Uganda, including the EACOP pipeline. BankTrack joined with international calls for the release of all those arrested. All have now been released. Read more.

Host Government Agreement with Uganda signed; CSOs call for prioritisation of conservation and livelihoods

2020-09-15 00:00:00

The government of Uganda has signed a Host Government Agreement (HGA) with TOTAL for the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline project (EACOP). The agreement was reported on Monday 14th September. An agreement between Tanzania, Uganda and TOTAL to fast-track remaining agreements was also signed on the preceeding Sunday. Tanzanian authorities have been given one month to reach the HGA with Total, according to The Citizen. 

Following the news, 15 local civil society orgnasations including Africa Institute for Energy Governance (AFIEGO), the Oil Refinery Residents Association (ORRA) and the African Initiative on Food security and Environment have delivered an open letter to the presidents of Uganda and Tanzania. The 15 CSOs remind the presidents of the economic, environmental, climatic and social risks and threats of the EACOP and call on them to prioritize environmental conservation and community livelihoods over the EACOP.

Oxfam and FIDH publish new Human Rights Impact Assessments of EACOP and related oil extraction projects

2020-09-10 00:00:00

Two new community-based human rights impact assessments were published today by Oxfam, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and partners on EACOP and the related oil extraction projects. The new reports highlight serious, ongoing challenges and future risks linked to these projects. Both reports offer community-driven recommendations urging oil companies and governments, who are on the verge of making their final investment decision, to take urgent measures to avoid a human and environmental disaster.

  • Empty Promises Down the Line? A Human Rights Impact Assessment of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, authored by Oxfam, Global Rights Alert (GRA), the Civic Response on Environment and Development (CRED), and the Northern Coalition on Extractives and Environment (NCEE), assesses the impacts of the EACOP pipeline. It concludes that neither the government of Uganda nor Tanzania appears to have adequately fulfilled its human rights obligations, and highlights that significant human rights and environmental risks remain and must be addressed.
  • New Oil, Same Business? At a Crossroads to Avert Catastrophe in Uganda, authored by FIDH and the Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI), reviews the past and present impacts of construction and exploration activities and future upstream oil extraction sites in Uganda.

The two independently-conducted assessments are summarised in the joint publication, Oil in East Africa: Communities at Risk.

CNOOC opts out of Uganda pre-emption

2020-05-28 00:00:00

CNOOC Uganda will not pre-empt the sale of Tullow Oil’s stake in Lake Albert to Total.

Tullow announced the Chinese company’s decision, saying that this paved the way for an agreement on tax. Total and Tullow announced a deal had been struck op April 23. The French company was to pay $575 million for Tullow’s 33.33% stakes in Blocks 1, 1A, 2 and 3A and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). Tullow is the operator of Block 2. CNOOC had pre-emption rights for a 50% stake of Tullow’s sale. The Chinese company’s decision not to become involved allows the deal to go ahead as set out, with no changes to the transaction or timeline, Tullow said.

The deal should be completed in the second half of the year.

Total acquires Tullow entire interests in the Uganda Lake Albert Project

2020-04-23 00:00:00

Total and Tullow have entered into an Agreement, through which Total shall acquire Tullow’s entire interests in Uganda Lake Albert development project including the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. The terms of the transaction have been discussed with the relevant Ugandan Government and Tax Authorities and agreement in principle has been reached on the tax treatment of the transaction.
 
Under the terms of the deal, Total will acquire all of Tullow’s existing 33.3334% stake in each of the Lake Albert project licenses EA1, EA1A, EA2 and EA3A and the proposed East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) System. The transaction is subject to the approval of Tullow’s shareholders, to customary regulatory and government approvals and to CNOOC’s right to exercise pre-emption on 50% of the transaction.

African Development Bank strongly rebuts claims that it plans to provide financial support to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project

2020-04-22 00:00:00

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has publicly responded to the letter sent by a coalition of civil society organisations asking the bank not to fund EACOP. In their response, the AfDB denies that it ever considered funding the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline. The announcement of the AfDB in which they clearly say no to this disastrous project and emphasise its commitment to aligning its energy investments with the Paris Agreement presents another blow to the oil companies behind EACOP and a win for the planet and the people of Uganda, Tanzania and DRC.

Oil spill in the Albertine Graben region

2020-04-16 00:00:00

On March 29, during the drilling of a well at Kibiro hot springs in the Western District of Hoima, there was a blow-out resulting into an uncontrolled discharge of gas, drilling fluids, geothermal fluids and sediments. According to the Ministry of Energy, a small amount of oil was also detected on the sediments but this did not affect the ecology and aquatic species. It is not the first time oil seepages are registered in the Albertine region and residents fear that the spill poses a risk to their livelihood and health and threatens the hotsprings.  

Ugandan government close to deal with Total and partners

2020-03-11 00:00:00

A new wave of talks were initiated to seek agreement on the sale of Tullow shares to the joint venture partners Total E&P, and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). A $900 million deal for Tullow Oil to sell 21.5% of its stake in the project to its partners expired last year following long delays over agreeing fiscal and commercial terms with the government. According to Sarah Opendi, the Minister of State for Mineral Development, Tullow "promised to finalise the process with joint venture partners in three weeks before the FID is signed". Other agreements that still need to be signed before reaching a FID are The Host Government Agreement (HGA), The Shareholding Agreement and The Tariff and Transport Agreement.

Tanzanian part of EACOP ESIA approved

2020-02-06 00:00:00

The National Environment Management Council (NEMC) of Tanzania has endorsed the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the Tanzanian part of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). While its Ugandan counterpart the National Environment Management Authority Ugandan (NEMA) already approved the ESIA's for the Tilenga and Kingfisher oil fields that will provide the oil going through the pipeline, approval of the ESIA for the Ugandan portion of the pipeline is still pending. 

TOTAL suspends work on EACOP after collapse of deal with Tullow

2019-09-05 00:00:00

All work on EACOP has been suspended after Tullow Oil’s plan to sell a stake in the project to Total and CNOOC was called off last week. “All East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) activities including tenders have been suspended until further notice because of the collapse of the deal,” an official told Reuters. 

Highly critical independent review of EACOP ESIA published

2019-07-16 00:00:00

The Netherlands Commission for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) has carried out an independent quality review of the Ugandan part of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project, following a request from the Ugandan National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA).T

The NCEA concluded that "the ESIA report does not yet provide enough information for sound decision making", citing exaggerated claims about jobs and other economic benefits; significant potential negative impacts to wetlands due to open trench water and wetland crossings; unsubstantiated claims of negligible impacts on land ownership; and insufficient treatment of energy/CO2 impacts. NCEA also notes that the cumulative CO2 emissions of all oil development projects (Tilenga, Kingfisher, Refinery, EACOP etc.) have not been presented.

International Call on Banks: Don’t finance the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline

2019-06-03 00:00:00

In May 2019 a coalition of African and international organisations wrote to South Africa’s Standard Bank and Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) calling on the banks to withdraw from financing the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline. Download the letter here. The letter was raised in a question by JustShare at Standard Bank's AGM, with the bank's CEO Sim Tshabalala responding that the bank would meet with local people opposed to the pipeline. The question and response were reported here.

Standard Bank CEO challenged on EACOP at bank AGM

2019-05-31 00:00:00

Moneyweb reports:

“Environmental activist Greer Blizzard of Just Share pointed out that Standard Bank is one of the lead arrangers for a US$2.5 billion loan to support the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline through Uganda and Tanzania, which the bank claims will unlock East Africa’s potential. However, the oil to be transported through this pipeline will emit more carbon than the whole of Uganda and Tanzania currently does each year. Thousands of people will be displaced, and the pipeline will run for several hundred kilometres though the Lake Victoria Basin, putting the drinking water of millions at risk.

A coalition of African and international environmental activists recently wrote to the bank urging it not to proceed with financing the project. They point to several studies showing major opportunities for financing renewable energy infrastructure which would meet the region’s energy needs in a clean and rights-compatible manner, which would represent a much less destructive use of the bank’s finances.

“Will the bank agree to meet with local people and listen to their concerns about the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline?” asked Greer.

Tshabalala said he would, adding that the bank supported the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), joining more than 500 organisations around the world committed to improving climate-related disclosures.

Tullow and Ugandan government agree on tax payments over Tullow's farm-down

2019-02-27 00:00:00

Tullow agreed to pay $167m capital gain tax to the Uganda Revenue Authority for its farm-down in the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. In January 2017, Tullow signed a sale purchase agreement to sell 21.57% of its 33.33% share to CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Company) and Total E&P. Tullow bargained over tax for almost two years with the Ugandan government until it found an agreement in February.

EACOP financial deal expected by June 2019

2019-02-20 00:00:00

Stanbic Bank Uganda and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp expect to raise USD 2.5 billion funding for the 1,455km East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline by June 2019.  The remaining 30% of the total costs of the pipeline (USD 3.5 billion) will be provided by the equity investors in the project. The banks previously planned to raise $2.5 billion.

The Environmental Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) report for the pipeline has been finalized and handed over to the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA). A summary can be found here. Meanwhile the governments of Uganda and Tanzania have agreed on several issues but will still need to decide on arbitration. Production is likely to start in 2022.

Financiers

The overall financing required for the EACOP is understood to be US$ 5 billion. TotalEnergies stated at its 2022 AGMthat this would be financed with a debt amount of "$2-3 bllion." [PDF, French only, p44] This contrasts with its statement at the previous year's AGM that the debt portion would be $3 billion [PDF, French only]. A debt-to-equity ratio of 60:40 (which implies a $3 billion project loan) was also reported in a statement to Uganda's parliament in April 2021.

Three banks are reported to be involved as financial advisors: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation of Japan, advising Total E&P; Stanbic Bank Uganda (a subsidiary of South Africa’s Standard Bank), advising Uganda and Tanzania; and ICBC of China, advising CNOOC. Stanbic and Sumitomo Mitsui were reported by Reuters to be acting as joint lead arrangers for the project loan.

Several commercial banks have ruled out finance for the project, and many large insurers have ruled out insuring it. The regularly updated list of banks that has ruled out finance for EACOP is at stopeacop.net/banks-checklist.

To date, the Islamic Development Bank has committed $100 million in finance and AFREXIM bank has committed $200 million. Financial close has not been reached.

For recent financiers of CNOOC and Total, see the TotalEnergies profile.

Related companies

In April 2021 the Shareholders' Agreement for the EACOP was signed by most parties to the deal. According to a statement to Uganda's parliament, Total E&P owns a majority 62% stake, followed by the Ugandan National Oil Company (UNOC) with 15%, Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) with 15% and CNOOC with 8%. The TPDC had a right to reduce its 15% shareholding downwards to a minimum of 5% within 30 days, but decided not to do so.

Project sponsors

China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) China

CNOOC owns 8% of the project equity.

Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) Tanzania, United Republic of

TDPC owns 15% of the project equity.

TotalEnergies France show profile

Oil and Gas Extraction | Gas Electric Power Generation | Pipeline Transportation of Crude Oil | Pipeline Transportation of Natural Gas
Total is the lead company behind EACOP with a 62% stake.

Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) Uganda

UNOC owns 15% of the project equity.

Other companies

ChelPipe Russian Federation

Upstream Online reported on 31.05.21: "According to industry sources, ChelPipe has won a tender to supply 270,000 tonnes of 24-inch pipe to build the East African Crude Oil pipeline in Uganda, spanning 1445 kilometres."

Golder Associates Canada

Golder has been hired by the lenders as the E&S consultant for the project.

Tullow Oil United Kingdom

Tullow Oil previously owned one-third of the project equity, but in April 2020 reached an agreement to sell this stake to Total.

Worley Parsons Australia

Worley Parsons has been hired for the crucial Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM) contract for the pipeline.

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The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China should finance a green and low-carbon future, not the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

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Let’s heed the UN’s dire warning and stop the east African oil pipeline now

2021-08-17 | The Guardian
blog
external news
our news

Pipeline project: resettlement plan plan disclosure resumes this week

2021-08-10 | Chimp Reports
blog
external news
our news

East African Crude Oil Pipeline: new update on risks and impacts for financiers

2021-08-09 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Oil pipeline compensation rates stir fresh frustration in Rakai

2021-08-06 | The Independent
blog
external news
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Uganda: CSOs warn of illicit financial flows in oil and gas industry

2021-07-22 | The Monitor
blog
external news
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Lawyers seek to halt oil pipeline project over failure to consider local Uganda firms for contracts

2021-07-22 | PML Daily
blog
external news
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AXA becomes the first insurer to say no to Total’s oil project in East Africa

2021-07-09 | #StopEACOP coalition
blog
external news
our news

Concerns raised over red tape at the East African crude oil pipeline project

2021-07-04 | The Citizen
blog
external news
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Uganda’s Huge Fossil Fuel Venture Raises Fears of Environmental Damage

2021-06-25 | The Elephant
blog
external news
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Ahead of shareholder vote, activists stage global actions urging Japanese megabank MUFG to end climate-destructive financing

2021-06-23 | Tokyo | BankTrack, 350.org Japan, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network
blog
external news
our news

Campaigners call on re/insurance brokers to reject opportunity to tender for Total’s East African Crude Oil Pipeline

2021-06-11 | StopEACOP.net
blog
external news
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Pressure mounts on EACOP insurers amid carbon push

2021-06-11 | Energy Voice
blog
external news
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Standard Bank points to climate progress amid activists’ anger

2021-06-08 | Capital Monitor
blog
external news
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Uganda joins the rights-of-nature movement but won’t stop oil drilling

2021-06-02 | National Geographic
blog
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Standard Bank accelerates new era changes at board level

2021-05-28 | Independent Online (IOL)
blog
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Activists protest outside Standard Bank over its financing of fossil fuel initiatives

2021-05-27 | Mail & Guardian
blog
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Standard Bank commits to adopt climate strategy in 2022

2021-05-27 | News 24
blog
external news
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Standard Bank faces barrage of questions on fossil fuel finance at AGM

2021-05-27 | BankTrack, AFIEGO, Just Share, others
blog
external news
our news

Banks called upon to take action to protect biodiversity ahead of UN Biodiversity Conference in Kunming

Civil society organizations urge banks to adopt stringent “No Go” policy for biodiversity rich areas
2021-05-26 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Hundreds protest against TOTAL across Africa

2021-05-25 | EIN News
blog
external news
our news

Sigh of relief as Tanzania signs EACOP host agreement

2021-05-20 | The Independent
blog
external news
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Eacop’s financing blues as lenders desert $3.5b project

2021-05-04 | The East African
blog
external news
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East Africa: Africa Doesn't Need the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline

2021-05-03 | AllAfrica
blog
external news
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President Macron calls for accelerating construction of East African crude oil pipeline

2021-05-01 | The Independent
blog
external news
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Farmers, civil rights groups oppose Uganda’s oil project

2021-05-01 | Mail & Guardian
blog
external news
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Uganda approves Resettlement Action Plan for EACOP

2021-04-30 | Construction Review Online
blog
external news
our news

Gov’t not bothered about banks refusing to finance EACOP

2021-04-27 | Kampala, Uganda | The Independent
blog
external news
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Will East Africa pipeline see light of day before fossil fuel becomes extinct?

2021-04-25 | Daily Monitor
blog
external news
our news

Pipeline project: Government approves resettlement plan

2021-04-23 | Chimp Reports
blog
external news
our news

Three major French banks will not finance EACOP, according to French media

"The decision has been made, the project is too hard to defend", says bank source
2021-04-23 | BankTrack, #StopEACOP
blog
external news
our news

French banks disavow Total’s EACOP plans

2021-04-22 | Energy Voice
blog
external news
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BNP, Société Générale et Crédit Agricole ne financeront pas le projet de Total en Ouganda

2021-04-21 | Les Echos
blog
external news
our news

“My house is crumbling”: Living in limbo along the East Africa pipeline

2021-04-21 | African Arguments
blog
external news
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Case against pipeline project delayed

2021-04-21 | Daily Monitor
blog
external news
our news

Roadmap to Uganda’s first oil

2021-04-21 | Daily Monitor
blog
external news
our news

Open letter to Suluhu, Museveni

2021-04-21 | The Independent
blog
external news
our news

CSOs question secrecy about new oil deals

2021-04-20 | Daily Monitor
blog
external news
our news

Total’s East African oil pipeline to go ahead despite stiff opposition

2021-04-19 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Oil pipeline works to start from Tanzania

2021-04-15 | The Citizen
blog
external news
our news

East Africa crude pipeline must stop: Letter to Museveni, Suluhu Hassan

2021-04-15 | PM News Nigeria
blog
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Not under our watch: Greenpeace Africa responds to East Africa Crude Oil pipeline deal

2021-04-14 | Nairobi, Kenya | Greenpeace Africa
blog
external news
our news

‘We cannot drink oil’: campaigners condemn east African pipeline project

2021-04-14 | The Guardian
blog
external news
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French oil company, Total, defends the indefensible as investment decision is signed for a massive climate-destroying crude oil pipeline in East Africa

Following the signing of an investment decision for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP), the #StopEACOP Alliance published a statement responding to Total’s recent attempts to talk up its supposed green credentials.
2021-04-12 | #StopEACOP
blog
external news
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Total sees first oil from Ugandan project in 2025

2021-04-12 | Market Watch
blog
external news
our news

Total signs agreements with Uganda on East Africa oil project

2021-04-11 | Bloomberg
blog
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Total gives assurance as banks threaten opt out of oil project

2021-04-02 | The Citizen
blog
external news
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Uganda seeks $130m for pipeline deal

2021-03-31 | The East African
blog
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East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) will disenfranchise local communities in Uganda and Tanzania (By Charity Migwi, Edwin Mumbere and Evelyn Acham)

2021-03-26 | Africa News
blog
external news
our news

Will the East African Crude Oil Pipeline really benefit all?

2021-03-26 | ESI Africa
blog
external news
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UK rules out public subsidy for East African oil pipeline

2021-03-26 | Climate change news
blog
external news
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Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: World’s 60 largest banks have poured USD 3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since Paris Agreement

Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016
2021-03-24 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
blog
external news
our news

Total’s play for Ugandan oil tests the climate commitment of international banks

2021-03-22 | Climate Home
blog
external news
our news

Pipeline meeting called off over Magufuli death

2021-03-22 | Daily Monitor
blog
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Budget committee vetoes proposal to borrow Shs 481bn oil money

2021-03-19 | Chimp Reports
blog
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Eyes on East Africa oil and gas projects as Tanzania's new president sworn in

2021-03-18 | Upstrean online
blog
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Barclays and Credit Suisse rule out supporting East African Crude Oil Pipeline in the face of growing community concern

The #StopEACOP alliance of African and international environmental and human rights organizations has claimed another win in our campaign to stop the construction of the world's longest heated oil pipeline across East Africa.
2021-03-18 | Stop EACOP Alliance
blog
external news
our news

How Uganda’s ecofeminists are fighting back against oil-industry land grabs

2021-03-08 | Open Democracy
blog
external news
our news

Standard Bank reviewing oil pipeline financing concerns

2021-03-03 | Daily Monitor
blog
external news
our news

NGOs' pressure on banks threatens $3.5bn pipeline project financing

2021-03-02 | The East African
blog
external news
our news

263 ONG appellent les banques à ne pas financer la construction de l’oléoduc ougando-tanzanien

2021-03-01 | Agence Ecofin
blog
external news
our news

Más de 260 ONG piden a bancos no financiar un polémico oleoducto de África

2021-03-01 | Swiss Info
blog
external news
our news

Standard Bank targeted in appeal to avoid financing oil pipeline in East Africa

2021-03-01 | Business Live
blog
external news
our news

NGOs ask banks not to finance East African oil pipeline

2021-03-01 | Business Maverick
blog
external news
our news

In Brief: Nonprofits urge banks not to finance oil pipeline in East Africa

2021-03-01 | Devex
blog
external news
our news

Banks targeted in StopEACOP campaign

2021-03-01 | Energy Voice
blog
external news
our news

Organisations call on Standard Bank, others not to finance East African oil pipeline

2021-03-01 | Engineering News
blog
external news
our news

Organizations aim to block funds for East African oil pipeline

2021-03-01 | Mongabay
blog
external news
our news

Banks urged to steer clear of East Africa oil pipeline financing

2021-03-01 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

South Africa's Standard Bank to assess 'way forward' on East Africa oil pipeline

2021-03-01 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

Standard Bank to review ‘Way Forward’ on East Africa Oil Pipeline

2021-03-01 | Bloomberg
blog
external news
our news

Over 260 organisations call on banks not to finance Total’s East African Crude Oil Pipeline

With a final investment decision nearing, African and International organisations warn banks against joining $2.5 billion loan for a “manifestly irresponsible” project • New stopeacop.net campaign website launched.
2021-03-01 | International | BankTrack, 350.org Africa, AFIEGO, Inclusive Development International, IUCN NL
blog
external news
our news

Protect the climate but finance Total?

2021-02-24 | Greenpeace France, Reclaim Finance
blog
external news
our news

Tanzania, Uganda in bid to help locals tap into $3.5billion pipeline project

2021-02-20 | The Citizen
blog
external news
our news

Uganda: Govt Seeks to Train Locals Along Oil Pipeline Route

2021-02-10 | AllAfrica
blog
external news
our news

UKEF considering FPSOs in Brazil, pipeline in Uganda

2021-02-08 | Energy Voice
blog
external news
our news

The World Today, Israel

Coverage of the EACOP pipeline on Israeli TV channel Kan11
2021-01-11 | Tel Aviv | IPBC: Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation
blog
external news
our news

Just Share’s analysis of Standard Bank’s Fossil Fuels Financing Policy

2020-12-10 | Just Share
blog
external news
our news

Revealed: Government considering backing for oil pipeline project despite green pledges

Backing for overseas fossil fuel projects is 'rank hypocrisy' as Britain hosts climate change summit and urges public to go green
2020-12-07 | Telegraph (UK)
blog
external news
our news

Huge Total-led Uganda oilfield project hits fresh delays

Minister of energy hopes for final investment decision by the end of June on $16 billion Uganda project, but challenges remain
2020-11-25 | Upstream Online
blog
external news
our news

Uganda-Tanzania pipeline runs into legal challenges

2020-11-24 | The East African
blog
external news
our news

Crude Risk: Risks to banks and investors from the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

Civil society groups issue new finance risk briefing
2020-11-18 | BankTrack, AFIEGO, Both ENDS, Inclusive Development International, Just Share
blog
external news
our news

Oil company Total back in Court for human rights violations in Tilenga and EACOP projects in Uganda

2020-10-27 | France | Les Amis de la Terre, Friends of the Earth International
blog
external news
our news

Opinion: As the EACOP becomes a reality, affected communities decry delayed compensation

2020-10-26 | Chimp Reports
blog
external news
our news

Uganda inches closer to oil revenue

2020-10-22 | New Vision
blog
external news
our news

Government approvals received for $575 million sale of Tullow's Uganda EACOP assets to Total

2020-10-21 | Tullow Oil
blog
external news
our news

A call to action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End climate-destructive financing now

2020-10-20
blog
external news
our news

Uganda oil start date in doubt despite crucial agreements

2020-10-13 | Petroleum Economist
blog
external news
our news

Stop Standard Bank’s East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project

Extinction Rebellion South Africa calls for all environmentally and socially conscious people to close their accounts with Standard Bank South Africa, and move them to a bank that treats the climate and ecological crisis with the urgency it deserves.
2020-10-06 | Johannesburg | Extinction Rebellion South Africa
blog
external news
our news

Families left in limbo as Uganda oil project earmarks land

2020-10-02 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

Pipeline deal is done... How will locals benefit? Cop, leaders tell us

2020-10-02 | The East African
blog
external news
our news

Abusive arrests in Uganda : NGOs call for the immediate release of journalists and environmental defenders

Three journalists and six environmental activists were arrested by police in Hoima, Uganda, yesterday and today, 16 September 2020. Two are still in detention. They had come to denounce the destruction of one of the country's largest forest reserves and the risks posed by the development of the oil industry in Western Uganda.
2020-09-17 | Les Amis de la Terre
blog
external news
our news

Companies must take action to respect the rights of communities at risk in East Africa’s oil frontier

In research released today alongside FIDH and partner organizations, Oxfam highlighted the major risks of oil projects led by French energy giant Total in Uganda and Tanzania, which would require over 12,000 families to lose land and endanger sensitive and vital ecosystems.
2020-09-10 | Oxfam
blog
external news
our news

Pandemic risk and the Equator Principles: New EPA guidance provides helpful recommendations but could go further

2020-08-31 | Hannah Greep – BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Avoiding Total disaster in Africa

On 30 July, oil giant Total wrote off $8bn of its fossil fuel reserves, admitting they were stranded assets that would never be used due to weak oil demand and the impact these assets would have on the climate.
2020-08-07 | The Africa Report
blog
external news
our news

Govt, oil companies in assets inspection ahead of signing deal

2020-07-22 | New Vision
blog
external news
our news

Key Agreements Mull to Fast-Track EA Oil Pipeline

2020-07-20 | AllAfrica
blog
external news
our news

Tullow shareholders approve Uganda sale

2020-07-16 | Daily Monitor
blog
external news
our news

Oil pipeline compensation, hundreds face an uncertain future

2020-07-12 | NTV Panorama
blog
external news
our news

Thousands petition Standard Bank not to finance the controversial East African Crude Oil Pipeline

2020-06-25 | Johannesburg | BankTrack, 350.org Africa, Africa Institute for Energy Governance, IUCN
blog
external news
our news

Talks over Uganda-Tanzania crude oil pipeline deal to start soon

Negotiations for a Host Government Agreement (HGA) for the East African Crude Oil Pipe-line (EACOP) project will start soon
2020-06-25 | Daily Monitor
blog
external news
our news

Why is Standard Bank embroiled in the financing of the potentially disastrous East Africa oil pipeline?

The bank’s support for the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, which will traverse the world-renowned Murchison Falls National Park, is a huge risk for local people, the climate and the bank itself.
2020-06-18 | Diana Nabiruma, AFIEGO, Ryan Brightwell – BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

Standard Bank board: fossil fuel ties brought to light

Shareholders asked to oust climate-conflicted directors at AGM largest African bank
2020-06-08 | Just Share
blog
external news
our news

CSOs react to African Development Bank’s statement rejecting claims of potential pipeline funding

2020-04-24 | BankTrack, 350.org, Africa Institute for Energy Governance, Inclusive Development International
blog
external news
our news

Total acquires Tullow entire interests in the Uganda Lake Albert Project

2020-04-23 | Paris | Total
blog
external news
our news

Tullow secures cash relief with $575m Uganda stake sale

2020-04-23 | Financial Times
blog
external news
our news

SMBC misses critical opportunity to be a climate leader

SMBC’s new climate policy falls well short of Mizuho’s
2020-04-20 | Tokyo | Rainforest Action Network
blog
external news
our news

African Development Bank strongly rebuts claims that it plans to provide financial support to the East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project

2020-04-18 | African Development Bank Group
blog
external news
our news

AfDB says no plans to fund Uganda-Tanzania pipeline

2020-04-11 | The East African
blog
external news
our news

Civil society organizations to the African Development Bank: Don’t fund EACOP

2020-03-23 | Kampala, Uganda | BankTrack, Africa Institute for Energy Governance, Inclusive Development International, IUCN
blog
external news
our news

Total abuses in Uganda: French High Court of Justice declares itself incompetent in favour of the Commercial Court

2020-01-30 | Friends of the Earth France
blog
external news
our news

Uganda: Eacop Esia Study Was Conducted By an Unregistered Practitioner - CSOs

CSOs ask the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) not to approve the report since it was undertaken by an unregistered environmental practitioner contrary to the law.
2019-11-26 | AllAfrica
blog
external news
our news

Stakeholders want environmental safeguards during oil pipeline project

2019-10-28 | Soft Power News
blog
external news
our news

Uganda and DRC CSOs communique on failures in EACOP ESIA public hearings

2019-10-25 | Africa Institute for Energy Governance
blog
external news
our news

Total’s suspension of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline is a chance for Standard Bank and others to think again

2019-09-19 | Ryan Brightwell – BankTrack
blog
external news
our news

We must conserve our wetlands

The East African Crude Oil pipeline (EACOP) was designed to pass through more than 200 wetlands in Uganda
2019-08-05 | Daily Monitor
blog
external news
our news

Duty of Care: Total served formal notice for its activities in Uganda

2019-06-27 | Friends of the Earth France
blog
external news
our news

Activists urge banks not to finance Ugandan oil pipeline

2019-06-07 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

Standard Bank shareholders defy board in vote for greener disclosure

They want the bank to adopt a policy on lending to coal operations.
2019-05-31 | Moneyweb
blog
external news
our news

International Call on Banks: Don’t finance the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline

African and international groups voice opposition to pipeline development
2019-05-28 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Inclusive Development International
blog
external news
our news

Residents protest oil pipeline valuation process

2019-05-25 | Uganda | Whisper Eye
blog
external news
our news

CSOs call on presidents of Uganda and DRC to avoid oil exploration in sensitive ecosystems

2019-05-22 | IUCN
blog
external news
our news

Uganda, Tanzania Armed Forces to Secure Oil Pipeline

2019-03-20 | chimpreports.com/
blog
external news
our news

Land acquisition hurdles await oil pipeline project

2019-03-19 | Daily Monitor
blog
external news
our news

Government Seeks Shs847b for Stake in Oil Pipeline

2019-03-18 | allafrica.com/
blog
external news
our news

Tullow free to exit Uganda after tax talks conclude

2019-02-20
blog
external news
our news

Uganda expects first oil production to be delayed to 2022 - minister

2019-02-03 | Reuters
blog
external news
our news

EA oil pipeline impact assessment report finalized

2019-01-21 | independent
blog
external news
our news

Uganda expects pipeline financing deal by June 2019

2018-11-26 | The EastAfrican
blog
external news
our news

Pipeline: Stepping stone for Japanese financiers

2018-10-08 | Daily Monitor
blog
external news
our news

Marked for demolition? Ugandans on pipeline route fear land loss

2018-08-15 | This is place

Documents

Type:
Year:
our publications
2022-11-15 00:00:00

Who is financing fossil fuel expansion in Africa?

2022-11-15 00:00:00 | Urgewald, BankTrack, 350.org Africa, Africa Coal Network & Oilwatch Africa, et al.
ngo documents
2022-10-01 00:00:00

EACOP: A disaster in the making

Research into Total's mega pipeline project in Tanzania
2022-10-01 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre France, Survie
our publications
2022-07-05 00:00:00

Assessment of East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) and Associated Facilities’ Compliance with Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards - Chinese Translation

东非原油管道及相关项目 之合规分析 对标 赤道原则及国际金融公司 环境和社会绩效标准
2022-07-05 00:00:00 | AFIEGO, Inclusive Development International, BankTrack
correspondence
2020-05-19 00:00:00

Letter from BankTrack, GPFOG, IDI, 350 to ICBC on EACOP

2020-05-19 00:00:00 | BankTrack, GPFOG, IDI, 350
correspondence
2022-09-21 00:00:00

Letter from 100+ civil society organisations to Islamic Development Bank on concern over finance for EACOP

2022-09-21 00:00:00 | 100+ civil society organisations
our publications
2022-09-12 00:00:00

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP): Finance Risk Update No. 3 (Chinese version)

东非原油管道:金融风险简报(更新三)
2022-09-12 00:00:00 | BankTrack
our publications
2022-07-05 00:00:00

Assessment of East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) and Associated Facilities’ Compliance with Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards

2022-07-05 00:00:00 | AFIEGO, Inclusive Development International, BankTrack
correspondence
2022-06-24 00:00:00

Letter from OCI, Kiko Network, 350Japan, RAN, CIEL to SMBC Board of Directors on EACOP

2022-06-24 00:00:00 | OCI, Kiko Network, 350Japan, RAN, CIEL
correspondence
2022-06-24 00:00:00

Letter from OCI, Kiko Network, 350Japan, RAN, CIEL to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group board of Directors on EACOP

2022-06-24 00:00:00 | OCI, Kiko Network, 350Japan, RAN, CIEL
ngo documents
2022-02-23 00:00:00

Petitiion from HRDs

2022-02-23 00:00:00 | ORGHA
ngo documents
2022-06-23 00:00:00

東アフリカ原油パイプライン(EACOP)に対する 邦銀の融資について

ESGリスクの背景
2022-06-23 00:00:00 | Oil Change International, CIEL, #StopEACOP
our publications
2022-06-28 00:00:00

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP): Finance Risk Update No. 3

June 2022
2022-06-28 00:00:00 | BankTrack
correspondence
2022-04-14 00:00:00

Letter from Euler Hermes to Ugandan civil society on EACOP

2022-04-14 00:00:00 | Euler Hermes
ngo documents
2022-06-01 00:00:00

Japanese Bank Financing of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)

Backgrounder on ESG risks
2022-06-01 00:00:00 | Oil Change International, CIEL, #StopEACOP
our publications
2022-03-03 00:00:00

Locked out of a Just Transition: fossil fuel financing in Africa

2022-03-03 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Milieudefensie & partners
our publications
2022-01-09 00:00:00

EACOP Finance Risk Update No. 2

January 2022
2022-01-09 00:00:00 | BankTrack
our publications
2021-12-14 00:00:00

Actions speak louder: Assessing bank responses to human rights violations

2021-12-14 00:00:00 | BankTrack
correspondence
2021-10-29 00:00:00

Letter from 61 African CSOs to ICBC on the EACOP

主题:请求中国工商银行资助绿色低碳未来, 而不是东非原油管道(EACOP)
2021-10-29 00:00:00 | 61 African CSOs
correspondence
2021-10-29 00:00:00

Letter from 61 African CSOs to ICBC on the EACOP

Subject: Asking Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to finance a green and low-carbon future, not the East African Crude Oil Pipeline - 也可以用中文
2021-10-29 00:00:00 | 61 African CSOs
our publications
2020-11-18 00:00:00

Crude Risk: Risks to banks and investors from the East African Crude Oil Pipeline - Chinese translation

东非原油管道给银行和投资者构成的风险
2020-11-18 00:00:00 | BankTrack, AFIEGO, Both ENDS, Inclusive Development International, Just Share
correspondence
2021-03-24 00:00:00

Letter from Standard Bank to BankTrack on OPEN LETTER: URGENT CALL NOT TO FINANCE THE EAST AFRICA OIL PIPELINE

2021-03-24 00:00:00 | Standard Bank
ngo documents
2021-02-25 00:00:00

Open Letter from over 260 civil society organisations to banks on EACOP

2021-02-25 00:00:00 | 263 CSOs
ngo documents
2020-12-02 00:00:00

A nightmare named TOTAL

An Alarming Rise in Human Rights Violations in Uganda and Tanzania
2020-12-02 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth France
ngo documents
2020-12-02 00:00:00

Understanding the impact of a low carbon transition on Uganda’s planned oil industry

2020-12-02 00:00:00 | Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)
our publications
2020-11-18 00:00:00

Crude Risk: Risks to banks and investors from the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

2020-11-18 00:00:00 | BankTrack, AFIEGO, Both ENDS, Inclusive Development International, Just Share
ngo documents
2020-10-31 00:00:00

Total, stop land and other rights abuses against the EACOP-affected people! Urgently pay the people their compensation!

2020-10-31 00:00:00 | AFIEGO
other documents
2019-08-02 00:00:00

We must conserve our wetlands - Opinion letter in Daily Monitor

2019-08-02 00:00:00 | Daily Monitor
ngo documents
2020-10-22 00:00:00

(In French) Un Cauchemar nomme Total. Field research on human rights violations, linked to TOTAL's mega oil project in Uganda and Tanzania.

Une multiplication alarmante des violations des droits humains en Ouganda et Tanzanie
2020-10-22 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre France and Survie
ngo documents
2020-10-27 00:00:00

Total Uganda. A first lawsuit under the duty of vigilance law: an update

2020-10-27 00:00:00 | Les Amis de la Terre France and Survie
our publications
2020-10-20 00:00:00

A Call to Action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End Climate-Destructive Financing Now

Joint civil society statement
2020-10-20 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, and others
ngo documents
2020-10-01 00:00:00

The money pipeline

Cursed by Design: How the Uganda-Netherlands Tax Agreement is denying Uganda a fair share of oil revenues
2020-10-01 00:00:00 | Oxfam Novib
ngo documents
2019-08-01 00:00:00

Gender analysis of East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline

2019-08-01 00:00:00 | Oxfam
other documents
2020-04-20 00:00:00

Letter from Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council to Government of Uganda

2020-04-20 00:00:00 | Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
other documents
2020-05-18 00:00:00

Response headquarters Total to letter from Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council

2020-05-18 00:00:00 | Total
other documents
2020-04-20 00:00:00

Letter from Special Rapporteur of the Human Rights Council to CEO of Total

2020-04-20 00:00:00 | David Kaye, Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression; Githu Muigai, Chair-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises; David R. Boyd, Special Rapporteur on the issue of human rights obligations relating to the enjoyment of a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment; Michel Forst, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders
other documents
2020-05-18 00:00:00

Joint Total response to letters from Special Rapporteurs of the Human Rights Council

2020-05-18 00:00:00 | Total E&P Uganda
other documents
2020-09-15 00:00:00

Open Letter to the Presidents Of Uganda And Tanzania: Champion Environmental Conservation and Community Livelihoods Over the EACOP

2020-09-15 00:00:00 | 15 CSOs
ngo documents
2020-09-10 00:00:00

EMPTY PROMISES DOWN THE LINE?

A Human Rights Impact Assessment of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline
2020-09-10 00:00:00 | Oxfam
ngo documents
2020-09-10 00:00:00

New Oil, Same Business?

At a Crossroads to Avert Catastrophe in Uganda
2020-09-10 00:00:00 | FIDH
ngo documents
2020-09-10 00:00:00

Oil in East Africa: Communities at Risk

New community-based human rights impact assessments expose the major risks of oil development around Lake Albert and “down the line” in Uganda and Tanzania
2020-09-10 00:00:00 | Oxfam, FIDH & others
other documents
2019-05-12 00:00:00

Review of Adequacy of Environmental Mitigation in the ESIA for the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline

2019-05-12 00:00:00 | Bill Powers, P.E., E-Tech International
correspondence
2020-06-08 00:00:00

Letter from 15 CSOs to Standard Bank shareholders on A call to vote against the election / re-election of climate-conflicted directors at Standard Bank

2020-06-08 00:00:00 | 15 CSOs
ngo documents
2019-06-30 00:00:00

Serious breaches of the Duty of Vigilance law : the case of Total in Uganda

2019-06-30 00:00:00 | Friends of the Earth France and Survie
correspondence
2019-07-15 00:00:00

Letter from Standard Bank to BankTrack on Standard bank's role in arranging finance for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

2019-07-15 00:00:00 | Standard Bank
correspondence
2019-05-28 00:00:00

Letter from Inclusive Development International and BankTrack to Standard Bank, Stanbic Bank Uganda and SMBC on Standard bank's role in arranging finance for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline

2019-05-28 00:00:00 | Inclusive Development International and BankTrack
ngo documents
2019-05-20 00:00:00

OPEN LETTER FROM ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS TO PRESIDENT YOWERI MUSEVENI OF UGANDA AND PRESIDENT FELIX TSHISEKEDI OF DRC

2019-05-20 00:00:00
ngo documents
2015-04-29 00:00:00

Business, Human Rights, and Uganda’s Oil Part III

Respect and Remedy: Implementing corporate responsibility under the UN Framework on Business and Human Rights
2015-04-29 00:00:00 | IPIS, Action Aid
ngo documents
2013-11-28 00:00:00

Business, Human Rights, and Uganda’s Oil Part II

Protect and Remedy: Implementing State duties under the UN Framework on Business and Human Rights
2013-11-28 00:00:00 | ActionAid
company documents
2017-09-01 00:00:00

Geophysical and geotechnical surveys

2017-09-01 00:00:00
ngo documents
2011-12-31 00:00:00

Map of Ramsar Wetlands in Uganda

Prepared by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI), 2011
2011-12-31 00:00:00 | Nile Basin Initiative
company documents
2018-01-17 00:00:00

Company presentation

Gulf Interstate Engineers, Front-End Engineering Design presentation for EACOP in Uganda
2018-01-17 00:00:00 | EACOP
ngo documents
2013-07-02 00:00:00

Business, Human Rights, and Uganda’s Oil Part I

Uganda’s oil sector and potential threats to human rights
2013-07-02 00:00:00 | ActionAid
ngo documents
2018-07-03 00:00:00

Safeguarding people & nature in the East Africa crude oil pipeline project

A preliminary environmental and socio-economic threat analysis
2018-07-03 00:00:00 | WWF

Media
















Links

EACOP project website

http://eacop.com/

Total, Rendez-vous au tribunal

https://www.totalautribunal.org/amisdelaterre

Standard Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation: Don’t finance the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline

https://act.350.org/sign/stop-east-africa-crude-oil-pipeline/

StopEACOP.net

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline needs to be stopped and we have a plan to do exactly that.  Are you in?

https://www.stopeacop.net/

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP): A Spatial Risk Perspective

Interactive maps showing protected areas, Ramsar sites and water bodies at risk from the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, by the Stockholm Environment Institute.

https://mapforenvironment.org/story/The-East-African-Crude-Oil-Pipeline-EACOP-a-spatial-risk-perspective/111

#TotalKnew

Petition calling on banks to stop funding TotalEnergies, based on evidence that the company has been aware of harmful global heating impacts since at least 1971.

https://totalknew.com/

Petition urging TotalEnergies to cancel EACOP

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stop_the_total_disaster_loc/

Patrick's pipeline

Spatial mapping of the EACOP project and its impacts

https://lepipelinedepatrick.com/#

Maps

Map 1. Infrastructure: exploration and production blocks, past proposals. View full screen on Map for Environment here.


 

Map 2. Conservation: Ramsar sites, protected areas. View full screen on Map for Environment here.


 

Map 3. Ramsar - detail. View full screen on Map for Environment here.


 

Map 4. Water resources: Ramsar sites, rivers and lakes at risk. View full screen on Map for Environment here.


 

Map 5. Seismic risk. View full screen on Map for Environment here.


Maps by Stockholm Environment Institute, from "EACOP: A Spatial Risk Perspective", April 2021

Brief history

Oil was discovered in Uganda’s Albertine Graben in 2006 by exploration company Tullow Oil. Production licenses for the oil fields were issued by the Government of Uganda in August 2016 but commercial production has not yet begun, as it is contingent on the completion of the export pipeline. Extraction at the oil fields and the pipeline are therefore associated facilities, which should be regarded as interconnected components of one project. 

EACOP is under development by the French oil major TOTAL and the Chinese state-owned oil company CNOOC, in partnership with the Uganda National Oil Company and the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation. The UK-based Tullow Oil was previously a partner in the project, but agreed to sell its stake to Total in April 2020.Debt financing for the pipeline (amounting to approximately USD 2.5 billion) is being arranged by Stanbic Bank Uganda and Sumitomo Mitsui (SMBC).

The Inter-governmental Agreement between Uganda and Tanzania was signed in May 2017, securing the pipeline route.

The Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) for the pipeline was conducted in early 2018 by US firm Gulf Interstate Engineers, and an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) was provided to the Ugandan National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) in January 2019. An ESIA for the Tanzanian portion of the pipeline was approved by the National Environment Management Council (NEMC) in February 2020.

The process of valuing the land needed for the project in Uganda commenced in early 2017 and was completed in June 2019. Cut-off dates for the pipeline corridor, after which compensation will not be paid for new developments on land valued and demarcated for the project, were issued between April and June 2019. In Tanzania, the process started in February 2018, was completed in July 2019 and cut-off dates for priority areas were announced between March and September 2018.   

The pipeline’s initial projected completion date was 2020, allowing full-scale oil extraction to commence shortly thereafter in 2021. However the project has faced several delays. 

In September 2019, work on the pipeline was suspended after Tullow's efforts to sell its stake stalled. The joint venture partners and the Ugandan government recommenced talks in 2020 and Total agreed to purchase Tullow’s entire share of the project in April. 

In September 2020 the government of Uganda signed a Host Government Agreement (HGA) with TOTAL. An agreement between Tanzania, Uganda and TOTAL to fast-track remaining agreements was also signed in the same month. The Tanzania HGA was signed on the 26th of October 2020.

On April 11 2021, Tanzanian President Samia Hassan and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni met to sign another set of agreements to pave the way for the Final Investment Decision for the EACOP. This included two separate Host Government Agreements (HGA) between Total E&P, and the governments of Uganda and Tanzania; the Shareholders Agreement; and the Tariff and Transportation Agreement between the pipeline company and the shippers of Uganda’s crude oil through the pipeline. The Shareholders Agreement stipulates that Total E&P gets a 72% stake in the project; UNOC 15%; CNOOC 8% and TPDC 5%.

On April 23 2021, the government of Uganda also approved the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for EACOP which paved the way for acquiring and securing the rights to demarcated land. 

Commercial oil production is expected to start in 2025, at the earliest.   

 

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