{"id":1637,"date":"2024-01-28T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/why-uganda-picked-uae-firm-to-refuel-its-oil-refinery-project\/"},"modified":"2024-01-28T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T16:21:03","slug":"why-uganda-picked-uae-firm-to-refuel-its-oil-refinery-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/why-uganda-picked-uae-firm-to-refuel-its-oil-refinery-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Uganda picked UAE firm to refuel its oil refinery project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<h5>Sunday January 28 2024<\/h5>\n<p>Opposition lawmaker questions how a company with no expertise and portfolio in the oil sector was selected for the job.<\/p>\n<p><amp-img src=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/resource\/blob\/4505218\/0841056be56f894531a6744e74333d0d\/buliisa-ug-data.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" layout=\"responsive\" alt=\"Why Uganda picked UAE firm for oil refinery project\"\/><figcaption\/>\n<amp-img src=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/resource\/blob\/1367838\/915586bc1babb31d4518430f1968a807\/general-image-data.jpg\" id=\"author-avatar\" placeholder=\"\" height=\"50\" class=\"-amp-element -amp-layout-fixed -amp-layout-size-defined -amp-layout\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-text\">\n<p>In picking a United Arab Emirates (UAE) firm as the lead developer and investor for its 60,000-barrels-per-day oil refinery, Uganda has yet again opted for an outlier with the financial muscle but no technical expertise or footprint in the development of downstream refining facilities for oil and gas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-text\">\n<p>On January 23, Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa announced that the government had picked Alpha MBM Investments Llc from the UAE, with which&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/tea\/business\/why-uganda-picked-uae-firm-to-refuel-its-oil-refinery-project-4505214?view=htmlamp\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday January 28 2024 Opposition lawmaker questions how a company with no expertise and portfolio in the oil sector was selected for the job. In picking a United Arab Emirates (UAE) firm as the lead developer and investor for its 60,000-barrels-per-day oil refinery, Uganda has yet again opted for an outlier with the financial muscle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil-and-gas-en","category-oil-and-gas-ar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}