Kenya and Uganda map the route of new oil pipeline
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 August 2015 06:11
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Kenya and neighbouring Uganda have agreed on the route of a planned US$4.5bn oil pipeline, the link that will transport crude from companies including Tullow Oil
The pipeline will pass through the Lokichar Basin in northern Kenya, Manoah Esipisu, spokesperson for Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The countries had also discussed building the link through southern Kenya and the capital Nairobi. The agreed design will be the cheapest to develop, according to the spokesperson.
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East Africa: Uhuru and Museveni Strike Deal On Route for Oil Pipeline
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- Published on Wednesday, 19 August 2015 06:08
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Kenya and Uganda have settled on the northern route for the crude oil pipeline that will transport oil from Albertine to Lokichar in Turkana County.
The agreement was made during President Uhuru Kenyatta's state visit to Uganda, where he signed several bilateral agreements with President Yoweri Museveni.
President Kenyatta's spokesman, Mr Manoah Esipisu, said the two leaders agreed that "subject to financing, security guarantees by Kenya, the Hoima-Lokichar-Lamu oil pipeline starts as soon as possible."
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Kenya's First Oil Export Expected in October 2022
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Kenya's push to start oil production by 2017 will be delayed by at least five years going by the detailed design and construction timeline for the proposed crude oil pipeline connecting Uganda and local oil fields to Lamu.
The Toyota Tsusho design released yesterday shows that the flow of the first oil is expected in October 2022 at the earliest. This will come after the commissioning of the oil pipeline in the last quarter of 2020.
The design has dashed the hopes of the Kenya government, which had planned to start production by 2017. Tullow Oil Company also announced last month that the firm can only produce the first oil by 2020.
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Tullow to start Kenya oil production by 2020
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- Published on Monday, 03 August 2015 05:09
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Tullow Oil has announced it expects to produce oil for the first time in Kenya by 2020.
The announcement, made through its 2015 half-year report, puts to rest speculation that had earlier suggested Kenya would start producing oil by 2017.
In the report released on Wednesday (today), the multinational oil exploration company says a sanction decision for oil production is expected by the end of 2016, and the first production will happen “approximately three and a half years post project sanction”.