Drilling underway on Uganda's vast oilfields, amid new legal challenge in France

(3 Jul 2023)
UGANDA OIL DEVELOPMENT

SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kikuube, Uganda – 22 June 2023

1. Aerial shot of Kingfisher oil field operated run by China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) ++MUTE++
2. Various of machines working on oil pad at Kingfisher
3. Various of oil rig 2 at Kingfisher oil well run by CNOOC
4. Wide of Oil Rig 2 at Kingfisher

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buliisa, Uganda – 23 June 2023

5. Aerial shot of Tilenga oil field operated by TotalEnergies ++MUTE++
6. Wide of Tilenga oil field
7. Various of work at Tilenga Oil Fields

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kikuube, Uganda – 22 June 2023

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Gloria Sebikari, manager corporate affairs, Petroleum Authority Uganda:
“Two projects will produce the crude oil project that’s the Kingfisher project and the Tilenga project, so those two projects will produce oil and this produced oil will be commercialized through two other projects, the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, that will run from here, Hoima, to Tanzania to export crude oil, and then the Uganda refinery project, that will be used to process our crude oil into petroleum products for use.”

9. Aerial shot of Kingfisher oil field operated by CNOOC ++MUTE++

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buliisa, Uganda – 23 June 2023

10. Wide of a house constructed by TotalEnergies for people displaced by opening of oil fields
11. Various of Juliet Acumu washing utensils
12. Various of Acumu’s daughter preparing meal
13. Various of Acumu and her daughter inside house
14. SOUNDBITE (Luo) Juliet Akumu, displaced by oil field:
“The major problem we have experienced so far was a couple of days ago, there was a huge dust that originated from the construction site and all of us were covered in that dust.”

15. Aerial shot of Tilenga oil field operated by TotalEnergies ++MUTE++

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kikuube, Uganda – 22 June 2023

16. Wide of landscape
17. Various of pipes feeding water to local communities by CNOOC
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Gloria Sebikari, manager corporate affairs, Petroleum Authority Uganda:
“I believe a lot of the issues being raised by the activists are out of either misinformation or deliberate disinformation because, as government and the project partners, we have taken deliberate steps to ensure that the oil and gas projects are developed sustainably, we have taken care of the environment and biodiversity concerns, we are also ensuring that the livelihoods of the communities surrounding this operations are improved alongside the development of the projects.”

19. Wide of oil waste management site
20. Various of waste management equipment
21. Covered pit (substance beneath unknown)
22. Wide of staff walking across site
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Odil, facility manager, EnviroServ Uganda:
“We are compelled by the law to make sure that we monitor our activities here. Every three months, I didn’t mention to you that, we have eleven monitoring wells in a layman's term, you can call it the boreholes, they were drilled around this facility, and we pick the water samples from them, the deepest being 65 meters, the shallowest being 9, so we pick water samples all around this facility, we do analysis every three months and we report to regulators.”

24. Aerial shot of Kingfisher oil field operated by CNOOC ++MUTE++

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Buliisa, Uganda – 23 June 2023

25. Close of gate
26. Various of oil engineers showing map of oil depository


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