Kenya's oil: trucking along
With the country's contentious elections out of the way, Tullow hopes that development of its oil reserves will now progress
Tullow Oil has reported "significant progress" on the field-development plan that would lead to oil exports from Kenya's Lake Turkana region. But with a modest early-oil pilot scheme still to start and continuing community relations problems in the region, the project's path may not necessarily be smooth. In an 11 January operational update, the London-based exploration and production company said some $80m of its $460m total capital expenditure associated with operating activities in 2018 would be allocated to pre-development spending in Kenya. The focus is on developing already-discovered resources in the South Lokichar Basin on the southern side of Lake Turkana in a remote part of norther
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