Kenya

Kenya plans to begin oil exports in Q3 this year

July 25, 2019 | Company Operations, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya | – Kenya is expected to begin oil exports in the third quarter 2019, British multinational oil and gas exploration company Tullow oil said on Wednesday.  Mark MacFarlane, executive vice president for east Africa of Tullow Oil, said in a statement that in May the Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) production was increased from 600 barrels of oil per day (bopd) to 2,000 bopd and, to date, more than 200,000 barrels of oil have been delivered to the port of Mombasa. “Tullow expects …

Kenya to offer electricity to South Sudan in exchange for gas

July 03, 2019 | Energy Trading & Markets, Kenya, Sudan & South Sudan

• Kenya and South Sudan are pursuing a deal that would open up the export of electricity to the latter in exchange of gas. • Kenya will offer electricity from geothermal in exchange for gas from the tens of oil fields in South Sudan Nairobi, Kenya | – Kenya and South Sudan are pursuing a deal that would open up the export of electricity to the latter in exchange for gas. Kenya will offer electricity from geothermal in exchange for gas from the tens of …

Kenya plans to ship its first crude oil in June

May 10, 2019 | Kenya, Pipelines, Terminals & Storage

Kenya plans to ship its first crude oil in June Tullow Oil has so far transported 87,000 barrels from Turkana Only 600 barrels can be transported per day; new licenses given to allow up to 2,000.  London, UK | – Kenya plans to ship its first 200,000 barrels of crude oil in June, one year since President Uhuru Kenyatta flagged off the first trucks.  On June 3 last year, President Kenyatta flagged off four trucks with 156 barrels of Crude Oil from Lokichar in Turkana …

Tullow Oil, Kenya agree to resume oilfield activity

August 08, 2018 | Company Operations, Kenya, Oilfield Services

London, UK | – Tullow Oil Plc and the Kenyan government have agreed to resume work at Tullow’s oil fields where work to truck crude oil had stopped for more than a month after protests by the community, a senior petroleum ministry official said today. Protesters demanding more security in Turkana began blocking trucks carrying oil from Tullow’s fields in July. The trucking scheme aims to transport about 2,000 barrels per day of crude from northern oil fields to the coast to test oil flow …

Kenya picks Britain’s Wood Group for oil pipeline design

April 27, 2018 | Kenya, Pipelines

Naiobi, Kenya | –  Kenya has picked Wood Group Plc to design an estimated $2 billion (1.43 billion pounds) oil pipeline to pump crude from fields in the north of the East African nation to an Indian Ocean port, a senior government official said on Thursday. Kenya discovered commercial oil reserves in its Lokichar basin in 2012 and the 800-km (500-mile) pipeline is expected to be built before production is due to start in 2021/22. Andrew Kamau, the principal secretary at the Petroleum and Mining …

Kenya awards firms licence to drill for natural gas

October 13, 2017 | Drilling / Completions, Kenya

London, UK | –  Zarara Oil & Gas Ltd will start drilling two wells of natural gas after Kenya’s National Environment Management Authority (Nema) approved environmental licences for well sinking on Pate Island off the coast in Lamu. This is in line with the government’s plan to expedite commercial gas production for power generation. The company has been set strict deadlines by the Ministry of Energy to start drilling Pate 2 by the end of the year and later Pate 3 as the government wants …

Tullow Oil strikes more oil deposits in northern Kenya

May 19, 2017 | Company Operations, Exploration / Discoveries, Kenya

London, UK | – UK exploration company Tullow Oil has encountered around 75m of net oil deposits at an exploration well in Northern Kenya. The company found the new deposits at the Emekuya-1 well in Block 13T after drilling a depth of 1,356m and penetrated reservoir quality Miocene sandstones, which correlate to those seen at another Etom-2 well, where oil deposits were discovered earlier. Objective of the Emekuya-1 was to drill a fault block on the flank of the Greater Etom structure. Tullow Oil operates Blocks 13T and …

Tullow Oil plans possible extended exploration in Kenya

January 13, 2017 | Company Operations, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya | – Britain’s independent oil exploration company Tullow Oil may extend its oil exploration activities in Kenya to four additional wells this year, depending on the assessment of results from the initial four wells. Tullow Oil struck Kenya’s first crude oil in Turkana County’s Lokichar Basin in 2012 and followed it with a string of other finds which have placed the country on the path to becoming an oil producer. The firm has commenced the four-well exploration and appraisal programme in the South …