{"id":5381,"date":"2016-11-09T08:49:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T08:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2017-01-24T15:39:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T15:39:17","slug":"execution-of-jda-between-kenya-jv-partners-to-commence-by-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/execution-of-jda-between-kenya-jv-partners-to-commence-by-year-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Execution of JDA between Kenya, JV partners to Commence by Year-End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tullow Oil has reported that it expects the Joint Development Agreement (JDA) setting out a structure for the Government of Kenya and the Kenya Joint Venture Partners (Maersk Oil, Africa Oil) to progress the development of the export pipeline to commence execution by year-end.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest trading update the JDA signed in October will allow important studies to commence such as FEED, Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA), as well as studies on pipeline financing and ownership.<\/p>\n<p>This announcement comes as the JV partnership announced that good progress is being made on the Kenya development project with preparation for the upstream development Front End Engineering Design (FEED) well under way underway at the Amosing and Ngamia fields.\u00a0 Tullow Oil adds that a water injection trial programme at the Amosing and Ngamia fields has also commenced to collect data to support the efficient design of the field waterflood programme.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2eL005x\">Early Oil Pilot Scheme<\/a> (EOPS), which involves the transportation of early South Lokichar oil production to Mombasa by road, has been sanctioned by the Joint Venture Partners Tullow Oil says all is ready and is awaiting approval of agreements by the Government and relevant conditions to been satisfied.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the Joint Venture Partners will recommence exploration <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/294FiN2\">drilling<\/a> activities in Kenya in December 2016 with a programme of four wells in the South Lokichar basin. These wells include the drilling of two new exploration prospects and the appraisal of two of the existing discoveries, the Ngamia and Amosing fields.<\/p>\n<p>The wells to be drilled are Etete, a structure south of the Etom field; Erut, a \u00a0new prospect in the north of the basin; Ngamia South, an appraisal well to extend Ngamia to the southeast; and lastly Amosing Updip, a well targeting undrilled near-fault volumes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we exit 2016, we are well placed to begin the process of both refinancing and paying down our debt in 2017 while also focusing on growth through our exploration programmes in Africa and South America and the commercialisation of our assets in East Africa,\u201d concludes Aidan Heavey, Chief Executive Officer, Tullow Oil Plc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tullow Oil has reported that it expects the Joint Development Agreement (JDA) setting out a structure for the Government of Kenya and the Kenya Joint Venture Partners (Maersk Oil, Africa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/execution-of-jda-between-kenya-jv-partners-to-commence-by-year-end\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2507,"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":[11],"tags":[70,100,138,5511,4566,671,5509,4718,4581,4717,3234,5512,1213,1252,1444,3784,1732,1827,2377,2571,5510],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-africa-oil","tag-aidan-heavey","tag-amosing","tag-amosing-updip","tag-early-oil-pilot-scheme","tag-east-africa","tag-environmental-and-social-impact-assessments","tag-erut","tag-esia","tag-etete","tag-feed","tag-front-end-engineering-design","tag-joint-development-agreement","tag-kenya","tag-lokichar","tag-maersk-oil","tag-ngamia","tag-oil","tag-south-lokichar","tag-tullow-oil","tag-water-injection","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/KE-1316-Etuko-1-Marriott-PR46-Rig-2429-3.jpg?fit=512%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-1oN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6452,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/kenya-joint-venture-partners-sign-joint-development-study-agreement-crude-oil-pipeline\/","url_meta":{"origin":5381,"position":0},"title":"Kenya Joint Venture Partners Sign the Joint Development Study Agreement for the Crude Oil Pipeline","author":"","date":"October 24, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Lokichar-Lamu crude oil pipeline today took a significant step forward following the signing of a Joint Development Study Agreement (JDA) between the Government of Kenya and Tullow Oil, Africa Oil and Maersk Oil (KJV Partners), to carry out a study for\u00a0the proposed 820 km crude oil pipeline. 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