East African Experts from Rwanda, Kenya, and Uganda has met in Kigali on Tuesday to discuss and agree on the technical specifications for the oil pipeline that will link the three member states.

According to the report, the team of experts will design ways of dealing with issues such as; Technical specifications, funding mechanism and land issues, to determine the current and projected flow rates required, and the larger market that would be supplied from Kigali.

The implementation of the pipeline is expected to strengthen regional cooperation and boost business opportunities globally and between the three member countries.

Uganda and Kenya is said to have discovered commercially viable oil deposits, and the project is expected to help reduce energy costs, and improve the economic ties between the neighboring countries.

Experts said, the pipeline will reduce frequent road accident involving tankers crossing borders, as well as end the importation of the expensive oil products from the Gulf region through Indian Ocean to the port of Mombasa where there are refineries.

The said project is said by the experts to be going to consist of two pipeline sections, the Eldore (Kenya) – Kampala (Uganda) and the second pipeline, Kampala – Kigali (Rwanda).

The pipeline also projected to benefit not only Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya, but also Tanzania and Burundi with the expectation of even serving the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The said project was agreed on  in June 25, 2013, by the member countries and their heads of states after a tripartite meeting in Kampala.