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العنوان من نشرة : The East Africa
و هذه إشارة معبرة للضغوط التى يتعرض لها الجنوب من دول الجوار.
حتى تنزانيا تريد قطعة الكعكة و احتجت و رئيسها لم يحضر القمة و السبب:
انبوب نفط الجنوب. تنزانيا تريد ان تمر الانبوب من يوغند لشواطيها. اثيوبيا تريدها اما عبرها الى جيبوتى او عبر المثلث الذى يجمع كل منها و الجنوب و كينيا الى لامو و دى بخلى موسيبنى يطرش نارا.
الجنوب عمل دراسة جدوى, قامت بها شركة المانية و التى اكملت الدراسة و الجنوب لا يعجبو التكاليف و لكن كينيا و يوغندا بتقول :
No problems, نحن نجيبو لكم فى الجنوب و الاثيوبين بقولوا,
... wait a minute, what about us.
مشكلة.

All eyes on South Sudan as Kenya, Uganda push for Lapsset corridor project

By JOINT REPORT The EastAfrican

posted Saturday, October 26 2013 at 16:20

Quote: East Africa’s ambitious plan to boost its oil supply infrastructure enters a critical phase this week as Kenya and Uganda float a design tender, while South Sudan decides whether to build a pipeline through Kenya or Djibouti. On Monday, the presidents of Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda — meeting under the auspices of the 3rd Infrastructure Summit in Kigali — are expected to receive a progress report on the planned crude oil pipeline under the Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (Lapsset) corridor project. Sources said President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni are keen to see the project take off ‘‘in a matter of months.” It has emerged that after the Kigali meeting, Kenya and Uganda are to jointly float a tender for the design of the pipeline. “For Kenya and Uganda, the proposed pipeline is becoming an immediate necessity. Government officials have been given strict timelines. The two countries are under pressure to get quotations,” said a Kenya oil executive familiar with the matter. “Uganda is desperate to get a route for its oil just as Kenya is. For South Sudan, it has already dealt with its most pressing problem by using the old Khartoum route to export its crude. What it is looking for now is a security option that would give it a bargaining alternative.” The pipeline is expected to run 1,500 kilometres from Hoima near Lake Albert in western Uganda to Lamu port on Kenya’s Coast. The project is expected to be commissioned by 2017, when the two states are projected to officially join the league of oil producing countries. Lapsset However, it is unclear whether South Sudan will be part of the pipeline at the initial stage. On August 28, in their second summit in Mombasa, the three presidents had directed government officials to ensure that the South Sudan-Lokichar-Hoima crude oil pipeline is integrated into the Lapsset corridor project by December 31. At the Mombasa meeting, South Sudan’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Co-operation Barnaba Marial Benjamin represented President Salva Kiir. The EastAfrican has learnt that a $3 million feasibility study commissioned by South Sudan, on both routes — to Lamu and Djibouti ports — done by the German-based engineering firm ILF and the UK-based legal firm IDP, has found both technically viable, but the government is due to consider the cost, terrain of each route and geopolitics of the region.

الشئ الاكيد و الذى يجمع عليه الاقتصاديون هو ان الدول الثلاثة:
كينيا و يوغندا و جنوب السودان عندها احتياط نفط كبير و لو اجمع قادتها على ترك الاهداف القومية الضيقة و تعاونت فى مشروع مشترك فسوف تكون اغنى دول القارة.

President Uhuru Kenyatta with South Sudan President Salva Kiir during the Integration Project Summit at Urugwiro Village in Kigali, Rwanda. Regional leaders on Monday agreed to fast-track the construction of an oil pipeline between Kenya and Uganda. Photo\PSCU

Regional leaders on Monday agreed to fast-track the construction of an oil pipeline between Kenya and Uganda.


At the conclusion of a meeting Kigali under the auspices of the Third Integration Project Summit, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan set the November 30 deadline for contribution of monies meant for a study on the practicability of the project.


A joint communiqué issued after the meeting indicated that “partner States shall remit their contributions to the cost of the feasibility study by November 30th, 2013.”


The money is to be kept in a specific bank account opened with the National Bank of Rwanda.


The Summit of the four country’s presidents which has been dubbed a “coalition of the willing” also agreed to conclude talks with potential developers for the Eldoret-Kampala pipeline segment.


Although this deadline means regional leaders are keen on having a working pipeline before 2018 when oil production is expected to start in Uganda, further talks would be carried out between Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan on whether to have a joint development of the pipeline project.


FURTHER CONSULTATIONS


“The summit directed that…further consultations to be carried out between the Republic of Uganda, the Republic of Kenya and the Republic of South Sudan on the joint development of the crude oil pipeline project,” the communiqué said in part.


The envisioned pipeline, if completed, is expected to run 1,500 kilometres from Uganda near Lake Albert to the proposed Lamu port in Kenya.


But President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, Rwanda’s Paul Kagame and Salva Kiir of South Sudan were meeting for the third time to see if the pipeline could be linked with the $22 billion (Sh1.8 trillion) LAPSETT project to which South Sudan is a party.


LAPSETT, often called Lamu Port South Sudan Ethiopia Transport Corridor in long, is an ambitious infrastructure project conceived last year between Kenya, Ethiopia South Sudan and Uganda to help utilise the potential of Lamu port.


The leaders received a report from a joint committee of their ministers on the construction of the Eldoret-Kampala pipeline.


The four countries have recently been discussing the possibility of having linking highways, Standard Gauge Railways, connecting pipelines, ICT investments, joint travel regulations for visitors as well as joint security management programmes.


But at the Kigali meeting, the leaders concluded that South Sudan would be given more time to indicate which of the projects it would it want to be part of.


The oil pipeline between Kenya and Uganda could be an investment resulting from discovery of oil in Kenya’s Turkana County and Uganda’s Lake Albert region.


A Kenyan oil executive told the East African that the proposed pipeline is “becoming an immediate necessity” because the two countries are under pressure to get quotations from potential developers ahead of the 2017 deadline.


But sources have told the same paper that South Sudan would be considering which, transporting its oil through Kenya or Djibouti, would offer the best solution.
http://www.nation.co.ke/news/Leaders-set-deadline-over-Kenya...12178gb/-/index.html