据美国彭博新闻社10月22日迪拜报道，乌干达预计国外投资者将在明年年底前排队购买乌干达的5个新石油区块，并预计最早将在2023年开始生产原油。
乌干达能源部长穆洛尼在迪拜接受媒体记者采访时说，这个东非内陆国家计划修建一条石油管道，通过邻国坦桑尼亚出口乌干达石油。穆洛尼时下正在迪拜招徕国外投资者对乌干达将提供的许可证的兴趣。
长穆洛尼在彭博电视上表示：“在投入生产之前，需要投入大量资金来进行勘探和开发。”“我们希望到明年年底前这5个新区块将有新的投资者。”
乌干达拥有撒哈拉以南非洲一些最大的石油储量——60亿桶——其中估计有14亿桶是可采储量。2016年，乌干达取消了一项联合开发一条通往肯尼亚海岸的出口管道的计划，转而选择了一条通过坦桑尼亚的南部路线。
穆洛尼说，目前在乌干达作业的包括道达尔公司、图洛石油公司在内的国际石油投资者已经承诺投资30多亿美元。乌干达还在伦敦和休斯顿举行了投资者路演。穆洛尼说，她将前往俄罗斯，设法在那里提高俄罗斯投资者的兴趣。
为了出口石油，乌干达寻求在已计划的长1440公里(900英里)通往位于坦桑尼亚海岸坦加的输油管道中持有15%的股份。她说，图洛石油公司正在考虑在这个项目中持有10%的股份，坦桑尼亚可能会持有股份，道达尔可能会分享其余股份。
李峻 编译自 彭博社
原文如下：
Uganda expects to start producing crude as early as 2023.
Uganda sees investors lined up for five oil blocks by the end of next year and expects to start producing crude as early as 2023.
The landlocked East African nation plans to build a pipeline to export its oil through neighboring Tanzania, Energy Minister Irene Muloni said in an interview in Dubai, where she is trying to drum up interest in the licenses Uganda is offering.
“There is a lot of money that needs to be sunk into exploration and development before you go into production,” she said on Bloomberg Television. “We hope by the end of next year, we will have new investors for these five blocks.”
Uganda has some of the biggest oil reserves in sub-Saharan Africa – 6 Bbbl – of which it has estimated 1.4 billion are recoverable. It canceled a plan in 2016 to jointly develop an export pipeline to Kenya’s coast in favor of a southern route through Tanzania.
International oil investors currently working in Uganda -- including Total SA and Tullow Oil Plc -- have committed more than $3 billion, Muloni said. The country has also held investor roadshows in London and Houston, and Muloni said she is heading next to Russia to try to promote interest there.
To export its oil, Uganda is looking to take a 15% stake in the planned 1,440-kilometer (900-mile) pipeline to Tanga on the Tanzanian coast. Tullow is considering a 10% share in the project, Tanzania may take a stake, and Total will probably share the rest, she said.
