Eyes on East Africa over Uganda's heated oil pipeline

If constructed, the heated pipeline will run along Lake Victoria for 460km. [iStockphoto]

Lake Victoria is in grave danger as Uganda’s heated oil pipeline project inches closer to a start. Up to 6.5 billion barrels of oil reserves have been discovered in the Lake Albert basin on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Of these, at least 1.7 billion barrels are projected to be recoverable, and commercially viable. As a result, a plan to construct a 1,443km long heated pipeline to transport the...