{"id":712,"date":"2014-03-14T15:25:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=712"},"modified":"2015-09-09T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T11:12:27","slug":"british-gas-group-strikes-little-amounts-of-oil-gas-in-lamu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/british-gas-group-strikes-little-amounts-of-oil-gas-in-lamu\/","title":{"rendered":"British Gas Group strikes &#8216;some Oil &#038; Gas in Lamu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK\u2019s exploration firm BG Group has made an oil and gas discovery in lamu at the Kenyan coast although the reserves have been termed to be on no commercial threshold.<\/p>\n<p>According to the cabinet secretary for energy Davies Chirchir the discovery that was made at the block L10B shows the high potential for gas in Lamu County.<\/p>\n<p>The block is jointly owned by BG Group with 45 percent, Pancontinental Oil &amp; Gas and PTTEP with 15 percent with Premier Oil having withdrawn formerly holding 20%.<\/p>\n<p>Chirchir was speaking during the energy stakeholders\u2019 forum in Nairobi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK\u2019s exploration firm BG Group has made an oil and gas discovery in lamu at the Kenyan coast although the reserves have been termed to be on no commercial threshold. &hellip; 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Pancontinental's in a release dated 6th January 2014had said it was not intending to provide any information concerning the progress of the drilling of the Sunbird-1 well until the well\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elsewhere in Africa&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elsewhere in Africa","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/elsewhere-in-africa\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sunbird.jpg?fit=735%2C326&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sunbird.jpg?fit=735%2C326&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sunbird.jpg?fit=735%2C326&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/sunbird.jpg?fit=735%2C326&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3768,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/3768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}