Kenya’s senate wants proposed refinery site changed
Kenyan senators have voiced their opposition on the proposed oil refinery site in Isiolo saying it should be located at any county bordering the sea. The former government had come … Read More
Tag: Lamu
Lamu offshore well to be “plugged and abandoned”
Pancontinental Oil and Gas NL has provided an update regarding the Sunbird-1 exploration well in area L10A offshore southern Kenya. Pancontinental’s in a release dated 6th January 2014had said it … Read More
British Gas Group strikes ‘some Oil & Gas in Lamu
UK’s exploration firm BG Group has made an oil and gas discovery in lamu at the Kenyan coast although the reserves have been termed to be on no commercial threshold. … Read More
Infrastructure projects Uganda must undertake for quick oil production
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Amid accusations from British explorer firm Tullow Oil that Uganda was dragging its feet in relation to becoming an oil producer the government is said to be pulling … Read More
Kenya looking for $500m to construct new Pipeline
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Kenya is looking for a financier of a $500 million loan to put up a new fuel pipeline from Mombasa to Nairobi to replace the current 14 inch … Read More
Tullow Oil May Sell Part of Stake in Ugandan Oil Field
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Story Wall Street Journal Africa-focused oil and gas explorer Tullow Oil PLC is considering selling part of its stake in a Ugandan oil field it is developing with … Read More
Kenya Government to Invite Bids for Sh255 Billion Crude Oil Pipeline
Kenya is set to invite international bids for the design and construction of a crude oil pipeline linking the oil fields in Turkana and the Port of Lamu. In the first acknowledgement by a government official, … Read More
Uganda to sign memo with oil firms over production-ministry
Source: Reuters Uganda will sign a memorandum of understanding on Thursday with Britain’s Tullow Oil, France’s Total and China’s CNOOC, an Energy Ministry spokesman said, in a vital step towards … Read More
Licensing of Kenyan oil exploration blocks frozen
The ministry of energy has stopped all licensing of oil exploration blocks in Kenya until the government puts in place the Energy Act. According to energy principal secretary Joseph Njoroge … Read More
Kenya’s new energy bill delayed by 6 months
Kenya will have to wait a little bit longer before it can have a new energy bill that will regulate the petroleum sector with the Bill not expected in parliament … Read More