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With a History of Tax Disputes in Oil & Gas Industry: Shall Kenya be an Exception to Explorers?

Kenya is currently the second leading East African country with estimated 750 million barrels in only two blocks that is 13T and 10B in Lokichar Basin,South Turkana; after Uganda’s recoverable estimate stands at 2.2 billion. However, there is evidenced optimism that further immense discoveries are underway due to movement of oil to the Lokichar Basin, where exploration and appraisal campaigns are…

FID for Kenya’s Blocks 10BB and 13T Expected by 2018

Blocks 10BB and 13T operator Tullow Oil has said it expects the Final Investment Decision for the Kenya Full Field Development by the end of 2018.

According to the operator the drilling and operational activities to support the FID and FFD including engineering studies and contracting activities are underway in preparation for the start of Front End Engineering Design (FEED), which is expected in…

Tullow Oil discovers more oil, gas in Kenya’s Block 10BB

Tullow Oil has announced that the Amosing-6 and Ngamia-10 appraisal wells in Block 10BB have now been successfully drilled encountering oil and gas in both wells. The Amosing-6 was drilled near the basin bounding fault and encountered 35 metres of net gas and oil pay and Ngamia-10 was drilled in an untested fault compartment and encountered 65 metres of net oil pay.

The operator now says data…

Exclusive: Tullow Oil To Drill An Additional Four Wells In Kenya

Tullow Oil will be drilling an additional four wells with two of them confirmed and the rest in contingent status according to a source with information on the matter.

The operator had earlier said it would drill four wells in 2017 in the South Lokichar basin including  Erut and Etete prospects Amosing 6and Ngamia 10 appraisal wells with the potential to extend this by a further four wells…

Appraisal Drilling Commences at Amosing-6 well in Kenya’s Block 10BB

Block 10BB operator Tullow Oil has reported that appraisal drilling has commenced at the Amosing 6 well to appraise undrilled volumes located in the Amosing updip.

The continued appraisal follows the completion of Extended Well Testing in the Amosing field which commenced in May 2015 and saw production from all five zones was at a combined average constrained rate of 4,300 bopd under natural flow…

Tullow Oil To Commence Transport Trials for the Early Oil Pilot Project

Preparations for the early oil pilot project are set jump into a new phase in the coming days with the transportation of two trucks of crude oil that will allow the company study the oil behaves over various weather conditions along the way.

The two trucks Oilnews Kenya has learnt will take between 10-14 days to deliver crude oil from the Ngamia and Amosing fields in Block 10BB to the Kenya…

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…

Tullow Oil to Recommence Appraisal Drilling in Kenya’s South Lokichar Basin in Q4 2016

Tullow Oil has announced that it will be recommence drilling activities in the fourth quarter of 2016 with an initial programme of four wells in the South Lokichar basin and the potential to extend this by a further four wells in their latest trading update.

This verifies earlier reported information by OilNews Kenya in May 2016that the South Lokichar basin could see 2-4 Potential basin-openers…