(Posted 20th May 2026)
Following a visit by Africa’s richest man and leading industrialist, Nigerian Aliko Dangote, to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has it been confirmed that Uganda will in the new future begin production of initially 60.000 barrels of crude oil a day.
With the planned modular refinery near Hoima will then also a significant amount of processed white fuels be produce in Uganda, ensuring that supply challenges, as experienced in recent weeks, will be a thing of the past.
Dangote has also been visiting Kenya and Tanzania, where he was holding talks about the building of a major refinery, with locations given as Tanga in Tanzania and possibly Lamu in Kenya.
Uganda and Tanzania are also in the last stages to complete a crude oil pipeline from Hoima to Tanga, where a refinery could well make crude oil exports unnecessary once a refinery has been built.
Dangote’s project aims at a maximum refining capacity of up to 650.000 barrels a day, but first and foremost must crude oil be secured to meet such a processing capacity.
A refinery at the coast would then serve the host country – yet to be determined – but overall the East African Community member states plus allow for exports of value added white fuels and oils, instead of shipping crude oil for processing to distant locations.
