Uganda's president wants final approval of all oil, gas deals

08/30/2010
By Eric Watkins
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, apparently spurred by recent difficulties between his government and Heritage Oil PLC over taxes, said no future oil or gas agreements are to be agreed upon without his approval."In the case of petroleum and gas, I direct that no agreement should ever be signed without my express written approval of that arrangement," Museveni wrote in a letter to his government's energy minister, Hilary Onek.Museveni's letter, written in July but made public this week, follows Onek's conditional approval last month to the sale of Heritage Oil PLC's 50% stakes in two exploration blocks in the country to Tullow Oil PLC.Onek issued his approval saying that Herit...

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