Mewbourne Oil was fined $5.5 million in August 2023, also for air pollution violations in the region, and Ameredev was handed a $40 million fine in June 2023 for violations at its sites throughout ...

Over 400 wells “are expected to be drilled… to produce about 190,000 barrels of oil per day at peak when production starts in 2025,” the PAU said in a statement to AFP.

The $10-billion project involves drilling more than 400 oil wells in western Uganda, many of them in Murchison Falls Nature Park, a biodiversity reserve and the country's largest national park.