Tullow Oil, British Oil Company will continue its oil and gas development activities in Turkana County, the Government has said. A statement from the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining reveals that the government has reached an agreement with the company, and such includes addressing the grievances that stalled the transportation of the commodity to the
Tullow Oil has announced that the oil fields in Kenya’s Turkana will be fully developed by 2020, ahead of restarting of drilling in Lokichar Basin before December. The UK gas and oil exploration company published the production update yesterday where it gave a similar timeline for the Ugandan operation in the Lake Albert basin. Both
After decades of failed attempts, Kenya finally struck oil six years ago. Commercially viable reserves were discovered in Turkana, the northwest of the country, by British oil company, Tullow Oil. The basin is estimated to contain about 560 million barrels of oil. While commercial production is a few years away, there’s growing concern that Kenya isn’t ready for the environmental,
Prisoners in Osio in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo have, for an undisclosed period, been working in an illegal mine underneath a prison to extract diamonds. The illegal mine was only discovered recently after authorities raided the site. Prison officers and local people had before the raid set up temporary accommodation nearby to work
Transportation of crude oil under the Early Oil Pilot Scheme can now resume next week after area leaders allowed Tullow Oil to ferry the resource following a meeting between Turkana elected leaders led by Governor Josphat Nanok and a high powered government delegation led by Petroleum and Mining cabinet secretary John Munyes and Rift Valley
Kenya’s president, Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off a pilot scheme to export crude oil via Mombasa as part of efforts to capitalize on the country’s oil reserves. Kenya discovered commercial oil reserves in its Lokichar basin in 2012 and a 800-km (500-mile) pipeline is due to be built before production starts up in 2021/22. The national
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Sunday flagged off the first consignment of crude oil destined for export from the East African nation under a pilot scheme. Kenyatta flagged off trucks loaded with crude oil from the Turkana oil fields in northwest Kenya as part of the Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOP). “This flag-off event and
Kenya’s oil ambitions received a boost after the government reached a revenue-sharing deal with the Turkana local government and community where the lucrative oilfields are located. But the road to first oil and sustained production remains fraught with political uncertainty and volatility as some within the local community still remain unconvinced. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
The long-awaited works on taking Uganda’s crude oil to export markets started yesterday Saturday August 5, 2017 with President Yoweri Museveni and his Tanzanian counterpart Joseph Pombe Magufuli commissioning the construction of the 1,445km-long East African crude oil pipe line from Hoima district in Uganda to the Tanzanian port of Tanga. President Museveni arrived in
Tullow Oil Plc’s Kenyan unit said it’s seeking trucking companies to transport crude from northwestern fields to the port city of Mombasa as the East African nation rushes to export its first oil by mid-2017. The work will involve the trucking of crude in insulated containers from a production facility near Lokichar, Turkana county, to