Uganda Oil Refinery
 Location of Uganda Oil Refinery
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| Country | Uganda |
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| Province | Buseruka Subcounty Hoima District Western Uganda |
| City | Kabaale Township |
| Coordinates | 01°30′00″N 31°04′48″E / 1.50000°N 31.08000°ECoordinates: 01°30′00″N 31°04′48″E / 1.50000°N 31.08000°E |
| Refinery details | |
| Commissioned | 2020 (Expected) |
| Capacity | 30,000 bbl/d (4,800 m3/d) |
The Uganda Oil Refinery is a planned crude oil refinery in Uganda.
The refinery will be built on a 29 square kilometres (11 sq mi) piece of land in Kabaale Township, Buseruka Sub-county, Hoima District, Western Region, near the international border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, along the eastern shores of Lake Albert. This will be close to Uganda's largest oil fields in the Kaiso-Tonya area, approximately 60 kilometres (37 mi), by road, west of Hoima, the location of the district headquarters. Tonya is approximately 260 kilometres (160 mi), by road, north-west of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.
Uganda has proven crude oil reserves of 6.5 billion barrels, about 2.2 billion of which is recoverable. The International Monetary Fund was quoted in 2013 as saying that these reserves are the fourth-largest in sub-Saharan Africa, behind Nigeria, Angola, and South Sudan.
Some of the largest oil fields are in the Kaiso-Tonya area in Hoima District. This area has been selected for Uganda's only oil refinery. The strategy is to build a refinery that meets the petroleum products needs of Uganda and its regional neighbors, with any remaining to be exported.
In addition to the refinery, a new airport and a hospital are planned. The Hoima–Kaiso–Tonya Road, which connects Hoima to Kaiso and Tonya along the eastern shores of Lake Albert, passes through Kabaale Village where the refinery will be located. Also planned is the Nzizi Power Station, a 52 megawatt thermal power plant, using natural gas and heavy fuel oil as raw material. The cost of the refinery is estimated to be US$4.3 billion, with 70 percent of that amount to be borrowed and the remaining 30 percent coming from shareholders.
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