Oil pipelines planned in Kenya and Uganda to ferry crude from fields to port present opportunities for private financiers keen to gain a foothold in East Africa’s energy industry, the African Development Bank says. “Nobody has ever, ever lost money financing pipelines,” Gabriel Negatu, the Abidjan-based lender’s regional director for East Africa, told Bloomberg in
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