Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni says no one need worry about the fiscal impasse between his government and the corporate trio angling to spend some $3.5 billion on a pipeline exporting crude oil via Tanzania to the Indian Ocean, or the $10 billion mooted to develop the Albertine Graben, writes Barry Morgan.
Tullow Oil had been in protracted talks with the government over a partial farm-down to Total and CNOOC International, but the window for a negotiated agreement closed when the two-year period expired.