Since her appointment in 2011, Uganda Energy & Mineral Development Minister Irene Muloni has been working to overhaul the country’s regulatory regime ahead of a much anticipated bidding round, and arranging the infrastructure needed to bring the nation’s sizeable oil finds to market.
International players have been eager to ply their trade in Uganda since at least 2006, when its first batch of commercial crude reserves were discovered in the Albertine Graben.