Uganda-Tanzania crude pipeline project gains steam as Eacop opens new coating plant
Eacop Managing Director Martin Tiffen (yellow jacket) gives a tour of the coating plant at Nzega, Tanzania on March 26, 2024. Tiffen has since left Eacop.
The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) has inaugurated a coating plant, a facility that will prepare and insulate all the line pipes to be laid on the 1,443 km-long route from Hoima in western Uganda to the Tanzanian port of Tanga.
Eacop, which is overseeing the construction and management of the pipeline, said Tuesday that the completion of the thermal insulation plant, along with the signing of the corridor lease agreement, was “a milestone on the construction stage” of the project.
