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One Month of EOPS Crude Oil Already Stored in Lokichar - Source

One Month of EOPS Crude Oil Already Stored in Lokichar – Source

Days ahead of the much anticipated trucking of crude oil to the Kenya Petroleum Refineries in Changamwe Mombasa OilNews Kenya can now reveal that over 75,000 barrels are in storage as per the April tank dippings’.

According to the source the crude oil in storage include approximately 38,450 barrels from the Ngamia field and approximately 35830 barrels from the Amosing field bringing the total to…

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China’s Greatwall Bags Lamu’s Pate 2 Well Drilling Contract

China’s Greatwall Bags Lamu’s Pate 2 Well Drilling Contract

Greatwall Drilling Company Ltd has been contracted to drill Pate 2 well in Zarara Oil and Gas operated Block L4 scheduled later to spud later in the year according to sources.

The Chinese driller beat a team of other companies including Dubai based Sakson Drilling & Oil Services earlier involved in drilling at the Amosing and Twiga appraisal wells operated by Tullow Oil. The company has since…

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Early Oil Pilot Scheme To Proceed as Tullow Oil, Kenya Government Sign Agreements

Early Oil Pilot Scheme To Proceed as Tullow Oil, Kenya Government Sign Agreements

Transportation of oil from the South Lokichar region namely the Amosing and Ngamia oilfields can commence following the signing of an agreement between the Kenyan government and the joint venture partners namely Tullow Oil, Africa Oil and Maersk Oil and Gas on Tuesday.

The early oil pilot scheme (EOPS) which hopes to transport an estimated 2000 barrels of oil daily in insulated tanktainersfrom…

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Tullow Oil Budgets $225M in Kenya’s Pre-development, Exploration and Appraisal Expenditure in 2017

Tullow Oil Budgets $225M in Kenya’s Pre-development, Exploration and Appraisal Expenditure in 2017

Tullow Oil has announced that it will set aside $225M of the $500M Group’s capital expenditure to Kenya’s Pre-development, Exploration and Appraisal Expenditure this year.

This expenditure is expected to be broken into $100M of pre-development expenditure and $125 million of Exploration and Appraisal spend.

The new figures show a continued decrease in expenditure by the company $1 billion in…

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Tullow Oil Erut well in Kenya’s Block 13T to spud next week

Tullow Oil Erut well in Kenya’s Block 13T to spud next week

Tullow Oil is set to start the drilling of its northern most well in the south Lokichar basin ‘Erut’ to date on December 16th according to the country’s exploration manager Kevin Christopherson who was speaking at the just concluded SPE/AAPG Africa Energy and Technology Conference.

The well to the north east of the l has the potential to derisk the northern prospects and will target the auwerwer…

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Execution of JDA between Kenya, JV partners to Commence by Year-End

Execution of JDA between Kenya, JV partners to Commence by Year-End

Tullow Oil has reported that it expects the Joint Development Agreement (JDA) setting out a structure for the Government of Kenya and the Kenya Joint Venture Partners (Maersk Oil, Africa Oil) to progress the development of the export pipeline to commence execution by year-end.

According to the latest trading update the JDA signed in October will allow important studies to commence such as FEED,…

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Tullow Oil Receives 3 Year License Extension in Kenya’s Blocks 10BB, 13T

Tullow Oil Receives 3 Year License Extension in Kenya’s Blocks 10BB, 13T

Tullow has announced it has reached an agreement with the Government of Kenya to extend the exploration period for Blocks 10BB and 13T in South Lokichar to 2020 with the earlier extension set to expire in July and September 2017.

This announcement comes as the company expects to restart drilling activities in the South Lokichar basin in the fourth quarter of 2016 with Etete and Erut prospectsin…

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Tullow Oil, Kenya Government Committed to First Oil By 2017

Tullow Oil, Kenya Government Committed to First Oil By 2017

The Kenya government and oil explorer Tullow Oil have reaffirmed plans to start product in the Lokichar basin by mid-2017 as planned in a meeting with the CEO and other senior executives of Tullow Oil in a statement by statehouse spokesman Manoah Esipisu .

According to a statement by the president’s office the government and Tullow Oil discussed planning and implementing options on how to get oil…

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