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Uganda's Petroleum Exploration: Challenges, Achievements, and Future Plans

Learn about Uganda's oil and gas resources, ongoing projects, and achievements in petroleum exploration. Discover the challenges, lessons learned, and future plans in this comprehensive country report.

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Uganda's Petroleum Exploration: Challenges, Achievements, and Future Plans

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  1. NDR10 COUNTRY REPORT Presented By Andrew Ochan Geologist, Petroleum Exploration and Production Dept,Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development UgandaRio de Janeiro, Brazil 18th March, 2011

  2. A. INTRODUCTION The Albertine Graben Status of Licensing B. THE NDR Organization Available Data and oil and gas resources NDR Organisation Objectives of the NDR Legislation&Reporting Requirements Ongoing Projects Challenges Achievements Lessons Learned and Future Plans PRESENTATION OUTLINE

  3. Afar Depression Abu Graben Aswa Shear zone Albertine Graben Lake Albert Lake Tanganyika Lake Malawi INTRODUCTION THE ALBERTINE GRABEN • The area with the highest potential for petroleum production in Uganda is the Albertine Graben • The Graben forms the northern most part of the Western arm of the East African Rift System • It is a Tertiary rift, 500 km long, averaging 45 km wide and 23,000 sq km (Ugandan part) Tanzanian Craton

  4. INTRODUCTION • STATUS OF LICENSING • Albertine Graben is currently sub- divided into 10 Exploration Areas (EAs) • 5 active Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) • Companies currently licensed are Tullow Oil, Neptune Petroleum and Dominion Petroleum • Tullow is finalising the process of farming down its interests to Total and CNOOC (33.33% each) taking into account Government participation

  5. MINISTER MINISTER OF STATE FOR ENERGY MINISTER OF STATE FOR MINERAL DEVELOPMENT PERMANENT SECRETARY KILEMBE MINES RURAL ELECTRIFICATION AGENCY UGANDA ELECTRICITY BOARD UGANDA ELECTRICITY GENERATION Co. Ltd. UGANDA ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION Co. Ltd UGANDA ELECTRICITY DISTRIBUTION Co. Ltd DIRECTORATE OF ENERGY AND MINERAL DEVELOPMENT (D/E&MD) FINANCE & ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT ENERGY RESOURCES DEPARTMENT (ERD) PETROLEUM EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS AND MINES DEPT. PETROLEUM SUPPLIES DEPARTMENT SECTORAL PLANNING/ POLICY ANALYSIS UNIT RESOURCE CENTRE MEMD ORGANISATION

  6. ORGANISATION PEPD IN BRIEF • Petroleum Exploration and Production Department (PEPD) is a department in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development in Uganda • Formed in September 1991 from a Petroleum Unit under Geological Survey and Mines Department (GSMD) • Petroleum (Exploration and Production) Act, Chapter 150, Laws of Uganda 2000, vest upon PEPD the mandate to monitor and regulate upstream activities undertaken by oil companies • In the exploration, development and production of oil and gas resources, oil companies can participate in Uganda by entering into agreement (PSA) with Government

  7. Promotion of petroleum exploration in the country Monitor and regulate licensees undertaking petroleum exploration and production in the country Acquire, process and interpret geophysical, geological and geochemical data with a view of assessing the country's petroleum potential Initiate policy and legislation on petroleum exploration and development Build national capacity in the field of petroleum exploration and development Implement the National Oil and Gas Policy (2008) ORGANISATION MAIN FUNCTIONS OF PEPD

  8. ORGANISATION NEW INSTITUTIONS IN THE OFFING • Petroleum Authority of Uganda - Regulatory Body • Directorate of Petroleum in the Ministry responsible for oil and Gas - Policy and Licensing - Petroleum Data Mgt • National Oil Company - participate in petroleum operations

  9. AVAILABLE DATA

  10. PETROLEUM RESOURCE POTENTIAL • 18 oil and/or gas discoveries made to date • 5 discoveries (Mputa, Kasamene, Kingfisher, Waraga & Nzizi) at FDP stage • Discovered resources currently estimated at ~ 2.5 billion bbls of oil equiv in place • Type of crude is 30-34 API low sulphur, waxy crude, Pour point of ~40 degrees Celsius. • Excellent reservoir qualities with 20-30% porosities • Well flow rates in the range of 1,000 – 14,000 bopd indicative of good permeabilities

  11. NDR ORGANISATION

  12. OBJECTIVES OF THE NDR • Protection and preservation of the country’s E&P data for the benefits of future generations; • Encouragement of exploration activity by making high quality data available quickly to potential investors; and, • To strengthen information sharing and exchange of E&P data among the various stakeholders.

  13. NDR INFRASTRUCTURE • Currently semi-permanent storage for: • Seismic data tapes • well data (reports, logs, CDs) • Rock (cores, cuttings, fluids) • Future plan for storage in a modern data centre • IT infrastructure includes various servers, LAN, Backup and recovery mechanisms: • Software: Desktop OS (windows), Geoscience and Mapping, MS office

  14. LEGISLATION/REPORTING REQUIREMENTS • Petroleum Exploration and Production Act (1985) • Petroleum E&P Regulations (1993) • Production Sharing Contracts

  15. ONGOING PROJECTS Field Tape Copying & Transcription Commenced: Feb 2010 Personnel • 1 Geophysicist • 4 Technicians • Hardware/Software • Tape Drives (IBM 3480E1A, 3490E, 3590E1A , STK 4280 Dual 3480 & Exabyte 8505) • Tape Cartridges • MAGMA Software

  16. ONGOING PROJECTS Task • Create run lists and copy raw seismic and support data from various media (3480, 3490, LT02, etc) onto computer hard disk • Carry out QC, reformatting and data header standardization measures to ensure the data conform to accepted industry standard • Security back-up onto external disks and servers • Transcription of data onto PEPD acceptable media i.e 3590 which guarantee reasonable level of data durability. Output • 96% of 3,114 tapes copied to disk, QC’ed and ready for transcription to IBM 3590 cartridges

  17. ONGOING PROJECTS Crane MS Access Dbase Development Commenced: Feb 2010 Personnel: Various Status: 90% done, populating

  18. CHALLENGES • DM Structure is loosely defined • Lack of dedicated data management/IT personnel • Seismic data on various media with lack of reading capabilities • Lack of data submission guidelines • Storage facilities (buildings) and methods not conforming to industry standards • Naming conventions! • Funding

  19. ACHIEVEMENTS • Improved IT infrastructure • Seismic data transcription to common media • Data backup solutions in the offing • Institutional Framework in offing with data management functions to be vested on the Petroleum Authority • New legislation being drafted to address data submission

  20. LESSONS LEARNED AND FUTURE PLANS • Even for small amounts of data, careful planning is key • You need dedicated people on DM • Consideration to employ at least one dedicated IT Resource • Development of data submission guidelines • Complete tape transcription • Current law being updated to clearly define DM roles • Construction of a modern data centre • Consideration to scan all hard copy data • Complete Crane Dbase devt, make data avail on portal/web

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