HOW UGANDA FOUND BILLIONS OF BARRELS OF OIL | The Untold Story Before EACOP

For decades, Uganda's oil was little more than a rumor. Local communities around Lake Albert had known about mysterious oil seepages for generations. Colonial geologists documented them. Explorers drilled wells. Governments changed. Wars came and went. Yet for nearly a century, nobody could prove that Uganda possessed commercially viable petroleum. Then everything changed. In this first episode of our EACOP documentary series, we trace the extraordinary journey from the first recorded oil seepages at Kibiro and Paraa, through colonial exploration, political upheaval, seismic surveys, and the historic Mputa-1 discovery that transformed Uganda from a speculative frontier into one of Africa's most important emerging petroleum provinces. This is the story before the pipeline. This is the story before the billions. This is the story of how Uganda found oil. Subscribe for Part 2, where we examine how Uganda moved from discovery to development and how the foundations of EACOP were laid. #UgandaOil #EACOP #Uganda #EastAfrica #OilDiscovery #LakeAlbert #Mputa1 #TullowOil #HeritageOil #EnergyAfrica #Petroleum #Documentary #AfricaBusiness #AfricanEconomy #UgandaHistory #OilAndGas #AlbertineGraben #Energy #Africa #Infrastructure