Security concerns prompts Uganda to consider the Hoima-Tanga Crude oil route

Hoima – Tanga Crude Oil Pipeline Route (Southern)

Uganda and Tanzania have signed an agreement to explore the Tanga route for crude oil export from Hoima in Uganda.
If plans go to fruition, it will be a major blow to Kenya’s Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) corridor project. Kenya was hoping to piggyback on this proposed infrastructure to export the Turkana oil reserve.
The Hoima-Lokichar-Lamu route passes through the volatile northern Kenya. These are areas suspected to be vulnerable to attacks by bandits or Islamist militants. This seems to be the main concern to Uganda and has prompted them to consider the route traversing Tanzania to Tanga Port in the Indian Ocean.
Uganda has diplomatically stated that they are simply evaluating the least-cost pipeline route through the East African coast, but in the real sense, security may be their major concern.
The southern Tanga route has also been projected to be cheaper.

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Update October 2015:

Reuters Total says Kenya security important in Uganda pipeline decision

Prospective East Africa’s Heated Oil Pipeline will be the World Longest

Hoima – Lokichar – Lamu Crude oil Pipeline Route (The Top/Northern)

Kenya and Uganda have come to a consensus on a northern route for the crude oil pipeline. The length of the Hoima – Lokichar – Lamu route is 1500 kilometre (930 miles). The cost of the project is estimated to be around 450 billion Kenya shillings (US$4.5 billion).
The pipeline could the extended further to connect South Sudan and Ethiopia. The pipeline is part of the greater Lamu Port Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSETT).
This will bring to global markets 6.5 billion barrels of oil from Hoima in Uganda, and 600 million barrels from Turkana in Kenya via the port city of Lamu in the Indian Ocean
The prospective crude oil pipeline will be constantly heated because Ugandan and Kenyan oil is waxy. This will make it the world’s longest heated oil pipeline.
Talks on financing for oil pipeline have started, but according to BMI research estimates, the pipeline will be unlikely before 2020.

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Related video:
The Kenya Citizen TV Video Report on Hoima-Lokichar-Lamu oil pipeline route.