Kenya Cuts Share Of Oil Revenues To Local Communities
Kenya has decided to allocate 20 percent of future oil revenues to the communities where crude oil has been discovered, cutting the share from an initial proposal to give local Continue Reading
Kenya Set To Give Local Communities Greater Share Of Oil Revenues
Kenya plans to allocate 30 percent of future oil revenues to the community where the crude oil has been discovered, backtracking on a previous proposal to cap revenues at specific Continue Reading
The Plastic Fantasy That’s Propping Up the Oil Market
Kenya’s mountains of plastic bags might not seem central to oil’s grand narrative, but they are. Last week, the East African country banned almost everything about them: making them, importing Continue Reading
Tullow finds more oil in Kenya’s northern Lokichar basin
Tullow Oil has found more oil with a closely watched exploration well in northwest Kenya, boosting the resources in its emerging oil province which is set to feed East Africa’s Continue Reading
Kenya: Experts Warn Kenya Against Costly Transport of Crude Oil By Trucks
The Kenyan government has been urged to consider a pipeline for oil exports to reap maximum benefit from the proposed early production. According to oil and gas experts, the basic Continue Reading
First Kenyan Oil Output Due by March 2017; Exports to Follow
Tullow said to plan eight more exploration wells in Lokichar Nation holds 750 million barrels of recoverable resources Tullow Oil Plc will put Kenya on the map of oil producers Continue Reading
Kenya To Start 2,000 Barrel-Per-Day Exports Next July
Lokichar Basin Kenyan officials said oil from the Lokichar Basin will begin reaching foreign markets at a rate of 2,000 barrels of crude per day by July 2017, according to Continue Reading
Kenya creates 17 new oil exploration blocks: media
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 Continue Reading
More oil than thought in Kenya
A Canadian oil company with a focus on Africa said an independent survey of its holdings in Kenya led it to increase its reserve estimate by 24 percent. Africa Oil Continue Reading
Kenya: Intrigues and Power Play That Stand in the Way of an Oil Pipeline
A toxic convergence of national, corporate and personal interest on two competing oil pipeline routes is threatening regional integration in a dramatic saga involving Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Kenya and Continue Reading