July 13
Uganda: TotalEnergies Oil Project 'Devastating' for Ugandan National Park, NGO Says
Production has yet to begin, but TotalEnergies' controversial East African oil project is already taking a dire environmental toll in Uganda's largest national parks, a leading… Read more »
June 12
Senegal: Senegal Joins Oil-Producing Nations With Launch of First Offshore Field
Senegal has joined the ranks of oil-producing nations with Australian company Woodside Energy on Tuesday announcing the start of production in the West African country's first… Read more »
April 04
Senegal: Senegal's New Leader Announces Audit of Oil, Gas and Mining Sectors
In his first speech to the nation since his election as president of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye said one of his first policy moves would be to audit the country's oil, gas and… Read more »
October 02, 2023
East Africa: Environmental Groups Sue TotalEnergies Over 'Devastating' East Africa Oil Pipeline
Four environmental groups have filed a law suit against the French group TotalEnergies and its EACOP oil project in Tanzania and Uganda. They maintain that it threatens the… Read more »
July 27, 2023
Uganda: France's TotalEnergies Starts Drilling for Oil
French oil giant TotalEnergies has started drilling oil wells in Uganda as part of the massive East African Crude Oil Pipeline project that has been opposed by environmental and… Read more »
March 01, 2023
Africa: French Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against TotalEnergies Pipeline in Africa
A French civil court on Tuesday threw out a lawsuit brought by environmental campaigners against the French energy giant TotalEnergies over its oil projects in Uganda and Tanzania. Read more »
February 22, 2023
Tanzania: Tanzania Approves Controversial Oil Pipeline Despite Environmental Concerns
Tanzania has approved the construction of a pipeline that would allow Ugandan oil to be delivered to international markets, dismissing environmental concerns about the project as… Read more »
February 01, 2023
Africa: Total's Contested Oil Projects in Africa - the Case of Uganda and Tanzania
In the Lake Albert region, in northwestern Uganda, TotalEnergies plans to extract large quantities of oil buried deep in the ground. Work has already started. Backhoe loaders are… Read more »
December 08, 2022
East Africa: TotalEnergies in Court Over Massive Oil Projects in Uganda, Tanzania
The French energy giant TotalEnergies appeared in a Paris court after years of delay in a case in which six NGOs accuse it of "failing in its duty of vigilance" on two massive oil… Read more »
November 06, 2022
Tanzania: Uganda-Tanzania Oil Pipeline Project a 'Carbon Bomb', Analysis Shows
The multibillion euro East African crude oil pipeline project, being financed by France's TotalEnergies and the China National offshore Company, will produce far more carbon… Read more »