Tullow Oil, JV Partners Approve FID for the Early Oil Pilot Scheme in Kenya

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta today received a progress report on the planned Early Oil Pilot Scheme presented at State House, Nairobi, by the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum and the … Read More

Kenya will start oil production in March 2017

Following Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta’s directive to expedite exportation of Kenya’s first oil, Tullow Oil Company has confirmed that it will start oil production in March next year. Briefing President … Read More

Kenya Government ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ Of Commencing Oil Exports in 2017

The Government of Kenya  has said it remains cautiously optimistic of exporting crude oil from the lokichar basin by June 2017 having overcome the various challenges that remain including requisite … Read More

Hoima-Tanga Route A Done Deal for East Africa Oil Export Pipeline – Source

Technical teams examining the most cost effective route for an export pipeline for Uganda’s 6 billion barrels of oil are said to have settled on the most southern route through Tanzania’s … Read More

Uganda, Tanzania and Total E&P Uganda sign MoU on crude oil export pipeline framework

Government of the Republic of Uganda, the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, the Tanzanian Petroleum Development Corporation and Total E&P Uganda have a today signed a Memorandum of … Read More

Kenya Oil and Gas (upstream) sector fact file – shortened

Source: Ministry of Energy and Petroleum 1950-1992:  30 wells drilled by international oil companies in Kenya’s sedimentary basins. Two more wells drilled in the period stretching to 2010. None of … Read More

Toyota Tshusho named oil pipeline lead consultant

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Toyota Tshusho Engineering Corporation will design and carry out a feasibility study for the construction of a crude pipeline between Hoima to the Kenyan coast after the company … Read More

Resource estimates in ‪‎Kenya‬’s South Lokichar basin surpass 1 billion barrels of oil in new adjustment

Africa Oil Corp says that a new independent assessment of the Company’s Contingent Resources in the South Lokichar Basin located in Blocks 10BB and 13T in Kenya has been completed … Read More

Experts warn on proposed windfall tax in attracting investors to Kenya

Experts are warning that a proposed windfall tax by the Kenyan government on oil once production starts could keep away potential investors much as it would amount to more income … Read More

Tanzania: With Gas Already in Its Bag Tanzania’s Rift System Set to Become Next Oil Frontier

Original Story by Chaby Barasa for Tanzania daily News IF recent geological findings are anything to go by, the East African Rift System (EARS) is poised to become the next big … Read More