Kenya project on track, despite unrest
Concerns over revenue sharing and security have triggered repeated blockades at the remotely located oil development
Community action against a Tullow Oil-led exploration and production development in northern Kenya has continued to wreak havoc with an early-oil pilot scheme (EOPS) to send small quantities of oil to the coast by road. But the company says progress towards its main objective—to export 100,000 barrels a day by pipeline in the early 2020s—remains on track. Efforts to move stored oil produced by test wells at Tullow's site near Lake Turkana 1,000km (621 miles) by road to Mombasa for export finally started earlier this year. The project had been delayed and interrupted by local activists, who periodically blockaded both the road and Tullow's site. The most recent blockade halted road shipments
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