https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/The East African Crude Oil Pipeline is a 1,447 kilometre pipeline being built to carry crude from Uganda's Lake Albert fields to the port of Tanga in Tanzania, owned by TotalEnergies, UNOC, TPDC and CNOOC, according to EACOP Ltd. Partners took the final investment decision in February 2022, and the project has faced opposition from rights and climate groups and a September 2022 European Parliament resolution. A challenge at the East African Court of Justice failed on time limits, the first financing tranche closed in 2025, and first commercial oil is now expected by mid 2027.enhttps://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e17eacop-pipeline-fcb8afc2adMon, 21 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000Daily News reported that the pipeline was 92.7 percent complete, in a report based on remarks by TPDC managing director Mussa Makame in Dodoma. It said crude was expected at a Ugandan pumping station in December 2026 and at the Chongoleani terminal in Tanga in February 2027, with the first tanker loading expected in March 2027.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e16eacop-pipeline-3561f34a62Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000Maximus Ochai, chair of the finance committee of Uganda's Parliament, said first commercial oil production was now expected before the end of June 2027, relaying Finance Ministry and oil agency officials, the Associated Press reported, as carried by Voice of Nigeria. He said the pipeline would be ready to receive crude by mid December 2026.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e15eacop-pipeline-f72206831cSun, 01 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000The Petroleum Authority of Uganda told the Public Accounts Committee of Uganda's Parliament in March 2026 that the pipeline was 81 percent complete and first oil was expected by the end of July 2026, the Associated Press reported, as carried by Voice of Nigeria.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e14eacop-pipeline-39ff98194bMon, 05 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000Uganda's energy minister Ruth Nankabirwa and Tanzania's Deogratius Ndejembi set October 2026 for the first crude exports, saying the project was 79 percent complete at the end of December 2025 and on track for startup readiness by 31 July 2026, The EastAfrican reported. Daily News reported the same October 2026 export target.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e13eacop-pipeline-9431ebc8c7Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000Oil Price, citing Reuters, reported that the Petroleum Authority of Uganda said the pipeline was 75 percent complete. TotalEnergies says the pipeline and Tilenga are among its lowest emission operations, the report said.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e12eacop-pipeline-ec62895ecdWed, 26 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000A five judge panel led by Justice Nestor Kayobera held that the case was filed out of time and that the court lacked jurisdiction, and dismissed it, according to Natural Justice, The Observer and The EastAfrican. The Observer quoted the court as directing each party to bear its own costs at trial and on appeal, citing the public interest, which overturned the earlier costs award. The EastAfrican instead reported costs awarded to the respondents.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e10eacop-pipeline-d0137bf31eWed, 26 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000EACOP Ltd said it had closed the first tranche of external financing with Afreximbank, Standard Bank of South Africa, Stanbic Bank Uganda, KCB Bank Uganda and the Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector, without giving an amount, The Independent reported. EACOP Ltd said overall progress exceeded 50 percent at the end of 2024.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e11eacop-pipeline-a8a221397cTue, 01 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000The EastAfrican, a Nation Media Group title, reported the first debt tranche at 755 million dollars, citing an audit of EACOP Ltd, and a debt to equity ratio revised to 52 to 48, which it linked to the withdrawal of several Western lenders. It quoted UNOC's chief legal officer as saying the final tranche would come from Chinese banks and Uganda's energy permanent secretary as saying the project was fully funded.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e9eacop-pipeline-fcfda1cbfbFri, 01 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000The Appellate Division took up Appeal No. 4 of 2023 in Arusha in November 2024 and adjourned it to allow the appellants to file missing documents, the court said. Natural Justice said the appeal was heard in Arusha in November 2024 and in Kigali in February 2025.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e8eacop-pipeline-d0bd223f4dWed, 01 Nov 2023 12:00:00 +0000A five judge First Instance Division panel led by Principal Judge Yohane Masara dismissed the case as filed outside the EAC Treaty's time limit, with costs against the applicants, the Daily Monitor reported. Natural Justice and The EastAfrican also reported the dismissal on time limits. The groups appealed in December 2023, Natural Justice said.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e7eacop-pipeline-05119e10cfMon, 10 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000Human Rights Watch said, based on over 90 interviews, that families losing land to the project faced delayed and inadequate compensation and felt pressure to sign, and that the project should not be completed. TotalEnergies told AFP that more than 94 percent of people who signed agreements had received compensation. Human Rights Watch said TotalEnergies disputed the pressure claim and its land contractor Atacama Consulting rejected it.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e6eacop-pipeline-dab17aa5fbFri, 16 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa said challenging the approval of the projects was an affront to the independence of Uganda's Parliament, AFP reported.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e5eacop-pipeline-26c24cff9aThu, 15 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000The European Parliament urged TotalEnergies to take a year before launching the project to study an alternative route, called for the immediate release of arbitrarily arrested human rights defenders and stated that more than 100,000 people were at imminent risk of displacement without proper guarantees of adequate compensation, according to the Parliament's Legislative Observatory summary. The resolution is not binding on the companies.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e4eacop-pipeline-90e37554f1Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000TotalEnergies, CNOOC, UNOC and TPDC announced the final investment decision in Kampala on the Tilenga and Kingfisher oil fields and the pipeline, about 10 billion dollars in total, with production expected to start in 2025, TotalEnergies said. It gave pipeline stakes as TotalEnergies 62 percent, UNOC 15, TPDC 15 and CNOOC 8.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e3eacop-pipeline-71c4129471Thu, 20 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000The Tanzania host government agreement was signed at State House in Dar es Salaam, witnessed by Presidents Samia Suluhu Hassan and Yoweri Museveni, EACOP Ltd said.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e2eacop-pipeline-3e2fa1eb57Sun, 11 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000Uganda signed its host government agreement for the pipeline along with the shareholders agreement and the transportation and tariff agreement, EACOP Ltd said. Hart Energy reported the pipeline was then estimated at 3.5 billion dollars and that about 263 NGOs had urged 25 banks not to fund it.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e1eacop-pipeline-1ef10bc957Fri, 06 Nov 2020 12:00:00 +0000AFIEGO and CEFROHT of Uganda, Natural Justice of Kenya and the Centre for Strategic Litigation of Tanzania sued the governments of Uganda and Tanzania and the EAC Secretary General, asking the court to declare the pipeline and its agreements unlawful and halt construction in protected areas, Natural Justice said. The Daily Monitor gave the filing date as 6 November 2020.https://howitunfolded.com/companies/eacop-pipeline/#e0eacop-pipeline-c69a8af0baThu, 25 May 2017 12:00:00 +0000Tanzania and Uganda signed the Intergovernmental Agreement for the EACOP system on 25 May 2017, according to EACOP Ltd.