A statement from Kenya Presidency says Tullow Oil has confirmed will start commercial Oil production in June 2017 following President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive to expedite exportation of Kenya’s first commercially viable oil. While briefing President Kenyatta at State House, Nairobi Tullow Oil Chief Operating Officer, Paul McDade, said his company has made good progress and
Reports indicate Kenya Earned Over 500 Million in Revenues from Oil Exploration in 2015
Documents from the office of Kenya Auditor-General show that the country has earned Sh503.2 million from oil exploration works by foreign firms local media reported. According to Business Daily Africa, a total of Sh503,260,733 was collected last year as revenue from exploration. Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Andrew Kamau said “The cash (Sh503 million) came from surface
Kenya Still at Crossroads on best Crude Oil export plan after flop of Deal with Uganda
Kenyan presidency said the nation is still at crossroads on the best option to transport it’s crude from the Turkana region to the port. Presidential spokesperson Manoah Esipisu said during a presser in Nairobi that “Our plans for the first oil extraction are on course and we are seized of the planning and implementing options on
Uganda Decision to take pipeline to Tanzania Should be a lesson to Kenya Policy Makers
By Mbatau wa Nga The announcement that Uganda and Tanzania had signed an agreement to build an oil pipeline between the former’s oil fields and Tanga Port did not surprise analysts following the ping-pong game between Kampala, Nairobi and Dar-es-salaam. This should not have surprised Kenyan policy makers, either, because Uganda had contracted Total, a
Kenyatta wants Plan to transport Crude Oil by road Finalized by end of January, Oil expected at Port by September 2016
Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta has given a ‘State House team’ until the end of January to work out on the logistics of transporting the crude oil from the oil fields in the Turkana region to the sea-port according to latest Reports. A source quoted by The East African newspaper, said the team has been asked