据全球油气新闻10月22日迪拜报道，乌干达预计投资者将在明年年底前竞拍五个石油区块，并预计最早在2023年开始生产原油。
乌干达能源部长 Irene Muloni在迪拜接受采访时称，这个东非内陆国家计划建造一条输油管道，通过邻国坦桑尼亚出口石油。Muloni正在努力提高投资者对乌干达石油开采许可证的兴趣。
Muloni在彭博电视台表示:“在投入生产之前，需要投入大量资金进行勘探和开发。我们希望到明年年底，这五个区块将有新的投资者。”
乌干达拥有撒哈拉以南非洲最大的石油储备——60亿桶——据估计其中有14亿桶是可开采的。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，转而选择了一条穿越坦桑尼亚的南部路线。
Muloni表示，目前在乌干达工作的国际石油投资者，包括道达尔公司、图洛石油公司，已承诺投资逾30亿美元。乌干达还在伦敦和休斯顿举行了投资者路演。Muloni称，她将前往俄罗斯，以尝试提高当地投资者的兴趣。
为了出口石油，乌干达打算在计划中的1440公里(900英里)的坦桑尼亚海岸Tanga输油管道中持有15%的股份。图洛石油正考虑在该项目中持有10%的股份，坦桑尼亚可能会入股，而道达尔和中海油可能会分持剩余股份。
乌干达还希望改善该地区的电力供应和分配。Muloni称，坎帕拉正在研究将乌干达的输电线路与南苏丹和刚果民主共和国连接起来的可行性。
裘寅 编译自 全球油气新闻
原文如下：
UGANDA TO PICK INVESTORS FOR FIVE NEW BLOCKS, START OIL EXPORT PLANS
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 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, Cnooc Ltd. 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.
Uganda issued production licenses in an earlier investment round as well as in separate agreements with companies. Final investment decisions with Total, Tullow have been delayed, and the government now expects them by the first quarter of 2020, Muloni said.
Uganda also wants to improve electricity supply and distribution in its region. Kampala is studying the feasibility of linking Uganda’s power transmission lines with South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Muloni said.