As people eye the benefits there are questions over the environmental cost and the timing.
The heat is unbearable; the haze merges the sky, lake and land; kingfishers dive and rise as if playing with the wind coming off Uganda's Lake Albert, under which vast oil reserves like.
A once-treacherous dirt road leading down the valley side is now a winding tarmacked route which carries the equipment needed.The ground is being prepared at one of the sites where oil will be pumped out of the ground More than $10bn will be invested in the joint venture. The money will be used to develop several upstream facilities as well as the East African Crude Oil Pipeline, which will run for 1,400km from landlocked Uganda to the port of Tanga in neighbouring Tanzania.At another Ugandan oil field - still close to Lake Albert but 100km north-east of Kingfisher - dozens of earthmovers criss-cross a construction site for TotalEnergies' processing facility.
In 2020, just as she was settling in about 6km away from her original village, planting bananas and coffee, a piece of her new land was acquired for the Tilenga feeder pipeline. On top of being compensated for their land, they also benefited from a livelihoods restoration programme. In addition, facilities like a newly tarmacked road will make it easier for fishermen to transport their catch to market, and refinery by-products such as fertiliser, might improve productive sectors like agriculture.But there is a bigger question about whether Uganda as a country will benefit as richer economies shift to greener energy.
"If energy transition [away from oil] takes root, there is a risk of stranded assets; where some of the investment you make in the oil production infrastructure does not provide a good return to the country," says Paul Bagabo, the Uganda country lead for the Natural Resource Governance Institute.
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