President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday began a two-day working visit to Tanzania, with progress on the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) expected to top the agenda in talks with his Tanzanian counterpart, Samia Suluhu Hassan.
After two decades of policy development and negotiations with international oil companies, Uganda is edging closer to commercial oil production. Officials say the first of the upstream projects— the Kingfisher oilfield development—is on track for launch on August 31.
