{"id":4458,"date":"2016-03-10T10:33:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T10:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=4458"},"modified":"2017-01-25T11:44:39","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T11:44:39","slug":"tanzania-pipeline-route-not-a-done-deal-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tanzania-pipeline-route-not-a-done-deal-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Pipeline Route Not A Done Deal \u2013 Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"

Days after Tanzania and Uganda are said to have agreed on a more southern route that would avoid Kenya\u2019s oil rich Lokichar basin the latter\u2019s finance and energy cabinet secretaries are putting a brave face saying it is not a done deal.<\/p>\n

According to finance CS Henry Rotich and Energy CS Charles Keter despite the said agreement<\/a> between Tanzania\u2019s president John Maghufuli and his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni the pipeline project is a regional project in the fate of all East African Community states.<\/p>\n

They insist that the pipeline remains among the core issues to be discussed during the forthcoming EAC summit set for later this month.<\/p>\n

This is despite a pronouncement by the Director General of the Tanzania Petroleum development Corporation Dr. James Matarajio who says the construction of the 1403km $4billion pipeline will commence this August.<\/p>\n

“Uganda and Total have chosen us after they got satisfied that we have already conducted such projects, including the Tanzania Zambia Mafuta (Oil) Pipeline (Tazama), a similar projects at Songo Songo and Mnazi Bay as well as the just completed Mtwara-Dar es Salaam Gas pipeline,” Matarajio is quoted by Tanzania\u2019s The Citizen Daily.<\/p>\n

The two government officials also add that Kenya remained a major stakeholder in the project expected to build a connecting part of the line from the Ugandan border through the Lokichar Oil fields to Eldoret where it shall be linked to the Eldoret-Nairobi-Mombasa pipeline.<\/p>\n

Other infrastructure is also being developed as part of the Lamu Port Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) Corridor.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the Energy CS reiterated that Kenya will start<\/a> exportation of crude oil in the by 2017 with discussions ongoing to have the road and rail networks ready for evacuation.<\/p>\n

According to Keter Kenya will begin with 2000 barrels a day even as it awaits the construction of the pipeline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Days after Tanzania and Uganda are said to have agreed on a more southern route that would avoid Kenya\u2019s oil rich Lokichar basin the latter\u2019s finance and energy cabinet secretaries … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3902,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[116,3889,1077,1252,3915,1387,1445,1608,4175,1880,2365,2466,2472,2603],"class_list":["post-4458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-albertine-basin","tag-charles-keter","tag-henry-rotich","tag-kenya","tag-lamu-port-southern-sudan-ethiopia-transport-corridor","tag-lapsset","tag-lokichar-basin","tag-mnazi-bay","tag-mtwara-dar-es-salaam-gas-pipeline","tag-oil-pipeline","tag-songo-songo","tag-tanzania","tag-tanzania-petroleum-development-corporation","tag-uganda","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Kenya-Uganda-pipeline-design-1.jpg?fit=900%2C610&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-19U","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4513,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/kenya-uganda-presidents-to-agree-on-crude-oil-pipeline-route-in-2-weeks\/","url_meta":{"origin":4458,"position":0},"title":"Kenya Uganda Presidents to agree on crude oil pipeline route in 2 weeks","author":"","date":"March 21, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"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 past month hit headlines after Uganda and Tanzania agreed a route through Tanzania to the Tanga Port. 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