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Uganda to Produce 100,000 Barrels of Oil a Day

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Ugandas oil discoveries in three blocks have the potential to produce 100,000 barrels per day for the next 25 years, the Energy Ministry said.

The East African country has so far discovered deposits of about 2 billion barrels of crude, of which 600 million barrels can be recovered, Robert Tugume, the ministrys principal geophysicist, said today in a phone interview from Entebbe, 34 kilometers (21 miles) east of the capital, Kampala.

The finds in two of the three blocks are jointly owned by Tullow Oil Plc, the U.K. explorer with the most licenses in Africa, and London-based Heritage Oil Plc, Tugume said. The third block is also owned by Tullow, he added.

At least 32 of the 34 wells drilled so far have located commercially viable oil deposits, Tugume said. More exploration is going on which could mean more discoveries, he added.

Uganda issued oil concessions to five British companies and the remaining five blocks will be explored after the enactment of a new oil and gas policy by mid- year, said Tugume.

Tullow plans to start production next year with a targeted Ugandan output of between 5,000 and 10,000 barrels a day by 2012, rising to 150,000 barrels a day within five years. Neptune Petroleum Uganda Ltd., a unit of London- based Tower Resources Plc, and U.K.-based Dominion Petroleum Ltd. are also exploring for oil in Uganda.

To contact the reporter on this story: Fred Ojambo in Kampala via Johannesburg at [email protected]

Last Updated: January 5, 2010 07:28 EST