[2][3] Irene Batebe, a board member of the UNOC, also served as the Principal Refining Engineer in the Uganda Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, since February 2009.
In 2001, she was admitted to the University of Dar es Salaam, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical and processing engineering.
[4] Her responsibilities at the ministry included the certification that all the equipment and machinery imported into Uganda to construct the refinery and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline meet international standards and is of the right quality and specification.
[4] She has also presented papers at various oil and gas summits in Uganda[14] and abroad including the SPE/AAPG Africa Energy and Technology Conference that was held in Nairobi Kenya in 2016.
[16] In August 2015, when the National Oil Company of Uganda was established, Pauline Irene Batebe was named to its seven-person board of directors, where she still serves as of November 2017.