Working with Lake Albert communities in Uganda to improve health, welfare, safety and access

At the 2005 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Awards in Ireland, John O’Shea, who founded GOAL, challenged the award winners and audience to visit developing countries and see if they could make a difference by focusing their skills on helping communities to help themselves. He emphasised the need to develop new commercial initiatives in addition to health and educational support projects. Tullow undertook this challenge and chose the Kaiso-Tonya area in Uganda on the shore of Lake Albert.

Full details about this project are on page 4 of the CSR Report.

About Tullow in Uganda

Post the Hardman Resources acquisition in 2006, Tullow has a 100% operated interest in Block 2 in the Lake Albert Rift Basin, and is the largest acreage holder in the area. Four oil discoveries were made in the Kaiso-Tonya region of the block during 2006, proving up a working hydrocarbon system in the basin with good quality oil from highly productive reservoirs. Substantial upside potential has also been identified in the block in the Kaiso-Tonya area, the Butiaba area to the north and beneath Lake Albert, where the larger prospects are located. Block 2 is also likely to be the hub of any future development due to the relatively easy access to the lake shore, the level terrain for operations and the logical oil export route to the coast. In 2007, Tullow will undertake a programme of 2D and 3D seismic acquisition and further drilling across the basin to prove up the reserves. In addition, Tullow plans to sanction the development of an Early Production System in 2007, with a view to producing first oil in 2009. Full details of our operations in Uganda are available here.