Kenya

Africa’s first grid-connected biogas plant powers up

January 10, 2017 | Biofuels, Kenya, Renewable Energy

Naivasha, Kenya | –  A commercial farm in Kenya has become Africa’s first electricity producer powered by biogas to sell surplus electricity to the national grid, cutting the carbon emissions associated with oil-powered generation. The Gorge Farm Energy Park in Naivasha produces 2 megawatts (MW) of electricity – more than enough to cultivate its 706 hectares (1,740 acres) of vegetables and flowers, and with sufficient surplus to meet the power needs of 5,000-6,000 rural homes. The new plant generates not only electricity, but also heat …

Kenya, Sudan sign oil and mineral cooperation agreements

November 01, 2016 | East Africa, Kenya, Sudan & South Sudan

Khartoum, Sudan | – Kenya and Sudan have signed agreements to deepen the two country’s collaboration in oil and mining sector. Kenya is poised to gain from the agreements as the Sudan has made strides in petroleum and gas and mining sectors. The Sudan is an established oil exporting country and has made progress in mineral business with the government owned Sudan Gold Refinery in Khartoum producing 80 tonnes of pure gold in the last one year. President Uhuru Kenyatta and President Omar Hassan al-Bashir …

Kenya finalises agreement for development of crude oil pipeline

August 24, 2016 | Kenya, Pipelines

Nairobi, Kenya | –  Kenya has finalised an agreement with oil explorer Tullow Oil and its partners Africa Oil and A.P. Moller-Maersk for the development of a crude oil pipeline, as it bids to become an oil exporter, the president’s office said. Tullow and Africa Oil first struck oil in the Lokichar Basin in the country’s northwest in 2012. The recoverable reserves are an estimated 750 million barrels of crude. The two firms were 50-50 partners in blocks 10 BB and 13T where the discoveries …

Kenya to start exporting crude oil in June 2017

August 24, 2016 | Development / Production, Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya | –  Kenya has set June 2017 as the month it will start exporting oil with oil and gas exploration company Tullow Oil confirming that it will start oil production in March next year. This comes after sustained calls by Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta to expedite exportation of Kenya’s first oil. According to Tullow Oil Chief Operating Officer Paul McDade who was briefing President Kenyatta at State House that the company was making good progress in exploration and production. The oil will be …

Kenya creates 17 new oil exploration blocks for 2017 licensing round

May 12, 2016 | Government & Regulations, Kenya, Licensing & Concessions

Nairobi, Kenya |  Kenya has created an extra 17 new oil exploration blocks, bringing its total to 63 and aims to auction them in a licensing round in 2017, Kenyan newspapers quoted Ministry of Energy and Petroleum saying on Saturday. British explorer Tullow Oil and partner Africa Oil first struck oil in Lokichar in northwest Kenya in 2012. The recoverable reserves are an estimated 750 million barrels of crude. Since the discovery, interest from explorers seeking blocks in Kenya increased. Privately-owned Standard Newspaper quoted the …

Kenya will build own pipeline, Uhuru tells EAC summit

April 23, 2016 | Government & Regulations, Kenya, Pipelines

Kenya will go it alone in the construction of a crude oil pipeline that will terminate at the Lamu Port Kampala, Uganda | – Kenya will go it alone in the construction of a crude oil pipeline that will terminate at the Lamu Port, it was officially announced today. The decision, reached by President Uhuru Kenyatta and President Yoweri Museveni, was announced at the end of the 13th Northern Corridor Integration Projects Summit held in Kampala. Kenya will embark on the construction of the Lamu-Lokichar …

President Kenyatta to host Museveni for talks on Uganda-Kenya oil pipeline

March 20, 2016 | Kenya, Pipelines, Uganda

Nairobi, Kenya | – Presidents Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda will meet on Monday to discuss the construction of the Uganda-Kenya oil pipeline. The pipeline project was designed to move crude oil from the oilfields of Hoima to the Port of Lamu through Kenya’s own oilfields at Lokichar. Uganda’s oil producers, Irish company Tullow Oil, French company Total and China’s CNOC will also be in the State House meeting, said Spokesman Manoah Esipisu. Esipisu said the two leaders said the development …

Tullow Oil abandons Kenyan well as no oil found

November 23, 2015 | Exploration / Discoveries, Kenya

But Emesek-1 exploration well provided ‘valuable data’, Tullow says London, UK |  – A  UK multinational oil and gas exploration company  Tullow Oil announced a decision to withdraw from an exploration well in Northern Kenya in a series of uncommercial operations in Africa. The Emesek-1 exploration well is located in Block 13T, where Tullow has a 50 per cent stake and partner  Africa Oil  Corporation the remaining 50 per cent. The exploration well reached a total depth of 3,000 metres without finding commercial hydrocarbons. “The Emesek-1 …