Kenya’s Annual Receipts Could Reach $3 Billion Annually Once Oil Price Rebounds

A discussion paper dubbed “Potential Government Revenues from Turkana Oil” released in April 2016 estimate that annual receipts to the Government of Kenya could range from $800 million to as … Read More

Kenya Uganda Presidents to agree on crude oil pipeline route in 2 weeks

Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni today met alongside with their technical teams to discuss the construction of the Uganda-Kenya oil pipeline that has for the … Read More

Tanzania President meets Total VP Javier Rielo over Crude Oil Pipeline

Total VP Javier Rielo has assured Tanzania’s president Dr. John Maghufuli that the construction of the Uganda to Tanga pipeline will commence soon. Rielo who held talks with the Dr. … Read More

Confusion in East Africa Over Export Oil Pipeline Route

Months after the Kenyan and Ugandan president reached a deal to have the pipeline go through northern Kenya to the Kenyan coast the pronouncement has been thrown into a spin … Read More

Environmentalist Caution Uganda’s Licensing of Exploration in Virunga National Park

Over 60 environmental and tourism groups called for UNESCO and the governments of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to reach a deal to stop new oil drilling licences … Read More

Uganda, Tanzania and Total E&P Uganda sign MoU on crude oil export pipeline framework

Government of the Republic of Uganda, the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, the Tanzanian Petroleum Development Corporation and Total E&P Uganda have a today signed a Memorandum of … Read More

Soma Oil & Gas protest investigations leakage in a letter to the United Nations

The UK-registered oil and gas exploration company focused on Somalia Soma Oil & Gas has written a letter to Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno, Chair of the United Nations Security Council … Read More

Somalia maritime border case baseless, ignorant of international law – Kenya’s Attorney general

While acknowledging that Kenya had formally received a memorandum over a case filed by Somalia at the International Court of Justice the East Africa nation attorney general Prof. Githu Muigai … Read More

Kenya Somali Maritime Border Case Headed for the International Court Next Week

A fortnight after Kenya’s foreign affairs minister Amina Mohammed said that the East African nation and its horn of African neighbor had agreed to settle maritime border issues outside the … Read More