High potential: Uganda approves block awards in oil-rich basin

Two licences will be awarded in the Lake Albert play that hosts TotalEnergies’ huge Tilenga project

Prolific: a well test carried out on former operator Tullow Oil’s Waraga-1 discovery well in Uganda’s Lake Albert region in 2006.
Prolific: a well test carried out on former operator Tullow Oil’s Waraga-1 discovery well in Uganda’s Lake Albert region in 2006.Photo: REUTERS/SCANPIX
Published 19 January 2023, 17:30Updated 20 January 2023, 11:16