{"id":224,"date":"2013-12-10T09:59:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T09:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T14:34:04","slug":"oil-gas-opportunities-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/oil-gas-opportunities-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil &#038; Gas Exploration Opportunities in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s Petroleum potential is best depicted by the four large sized sedimentary basins that straddle the Country (sedimentary basins &amp; exploration blocks map). These are Lamu, Anza, Mandera, and Tertiary Rift basins. The sedimentary basins are divided into exploration blocks as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nationaloil.co.ke\/images\/blockstatus.jpg?w=1170\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya\u2019s Petroleum potential is best depicted by the four large sized sedimentary basins that straddle the Country (sedimentary basins &amp; exploration blocks map). These are Lamu, Anza, Mandera, and Tertiary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/oil-gas-opportunities-in-kenya\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3397],"tags":[63,70,165,955,1252,1376,1493,1827,2158,2511,2565,2571,2580],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pscs","tag-africa","tag-africa-oil","tag-anza","tag-gas","tag-kenya","tag-lamu","tag-mandera","tag-oil","tag-rift","tag-tertiary-rift","tag-tullow","tag-tullow-oil","tag-turkana","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/oil_gas_mining.jpg?fit=625%2C469&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3C","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2922,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/kenya-oil-gas-upstream-sector-fact-file-shortened\/","url_meta":{"origin":224,"position":0},"title":"Kenya Oil and Gas (upstream) sector fact file &#8211; shortened","author":"","date":"May 15, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Source: Ministry of Energy and Petroleum 1950-1992: \u00a030 wells drilled by international oil companies in Kenya\u2019s sedimentary basins. Two more wells drilled in the period stretching to 2010. None of them was a discovery. 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