Kenya and Uganda agree oil pipeline route

Kenya and Uganda have agreed on the route of a planned oil pipeline, it has been reported. The pipeline will run for about 1,500 km from Uganda’s Hoima district, then pass through the Lokichar Basin in northern Kenya and on to the Kenyan coastal town of Lamu. The export project remains subject to financing and security guarantees from Kenya, the Ugandan presidency said in a statement. The governments also agreed on building a reverse-flow pipeline that will carry imported petroleum products from Kenya’s port of Mombasa through Eldoret to Kampala. Moving in the opposite direction, the pipeline will take fuel from a refinery in Uganda to the Kenyan coast.