How geopolitical intrigues killed Uganda-Kenya pipeline and birthed 1,400km Eacop
Students in Kampala march to the European Union mission offices on September 29, 2022 to deliver a petition against the European Union parliament resolution asking its members not to support the East Africa Oil Pipeline. PHOTO | AFP
In the beginning, what we know today as the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) was meant to be the Uganda-Kenya Crude Oil Pipeline (UKCOP), linking Uganda’s oilfields in Hoima in the west with those in Lokichar in Kenya’s northwest, and running southeast to the Lamu port.
Proposed in 2014, the UKCOP was to benefit the two neighbouring countries through cost sharing of infrastructure projects and revenues from oil exports.
