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Uganda has adopted the horizontal oil drilling method as a way to reduce impact on the environment and wildlife in the environmentally sensitive Albertine graben. Commercial deposits of oil, which … Read More
Kenya will have to wait a little bit longer before it can have a new energy bill that will regulate the petroleum sector with the Bill not expected in parliament … Read More
Canadian oil explorer Simba Energy has a signed letter of intent for a new farm-out of Block 2A, onshore Kenya. The deal with a private Calgary-based company will see Simba selling up … Read More
Pancontinental Oil & Gas and BG Group have spudded exploration well Sunbird-1 in licence area L10A offshore Kenya. The Kenya L10A consortium consists of BG Group, operator, with 50% working … Read More
Ophir Energy plc has announced that drilling operations have now concluded on the Mlinzi Mbali-1 well in Block 7*, Tanzania. Ophir has an 80% net interest. The well was located … Read More
Oil demand in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) grew by a massive five per cent year on year between 2011 and 2012, outstripping both China and India, new data from African energy … Read More
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Story by Reuters China National Petroleum Company, a main oil investor in South Sudan, is evacuating oil workers to the capital, Juba, amid continued fighting in the world’s … Read More
The East African region is now focus of the world as it joins the league of oil producing countries with over 1.6 billion barrels discovered in Uganda and Kenya with … Read More
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Wood Mackenzie’s latest upstream analysis asserts that the proposed 1,400 kilometre (km) pipeline, from central Uganda to Lamu on Kenya’s east coast, is vital in order to realise … Read More
[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] All land transactions in the Kerio Valley region where oil exploration is ongoing in Kenya have been suspended till the country’s land commission comes into office. According to … Read More
