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Tanzania aims to complete oil pipeline from Uganda in 2020

An oil exploration tower in Tonya on the shores of Lake Albert. Landlocked Uganda plans to export its crude through Tanzania. PHOTO | FILE

Tanzania plans to complete construction of a crude oil pipeline from Uganda in 2020 at an estimated cost of $3.5 billion, its energy ministry said yesterday.

Uganda said in April it would build a pipeline to ship out crude from its fields in the Albertine rift basin, through Tanzania rather than Kenya, which had wanted to secure the export route.

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