$5.4M Disbursed Through Kenya Petroleum Technical Assistance Project – Report

The Kenya Petroleum Technical Assistance Project has disbursed $5.4M so far or 9.44% as of June 2016 according to the latest Implementation Status & Results Report by the World Bank … Read More

Kenyan Students Challenged To Take Up Courses In Oil And Gas

The University of Nairobi (UoN) in collaboration with Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) facilitated a very engaging public lecture dubbed, ‘Oil and Gas sector in the East African region: Challenges and … Read More

Summary on Kenya’s Petroleum Bill 2015, The Associated Model Production Sharing Contract(PSC)Bill 2015

By Berryl Claire Asiago Part 1: Kenya’s recent discovery of oil and gas should accelerate and contribute enormously to the achievement of national objectives, provided that proper policies, laws and … Read More

GDC trains 113 staff with the JICA $20.5M capacity building grant Baringo-Silali Project

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has trained 113 young engineers, scientists and planners in the first phase of the $20.5M  geothermal capacity building grant extended to GDC in 2013. … Read More

Skills for Oil and Gas Africa Annual Regional Conference and Launch kicks off in Nairobi

The Skills for Oil and Gas Africa (SOGA) Annual Regional Conference and launch has opened in Nairobi with the aim of addressing skill gaps in the oil and gas supply … Read More

The first 100 students in the Total Young Graduate Programme almost completing training

Total founded the Young Graduate Programme in April 2014 – an innovative initiative aimed at young graduates from more than 40 of the countries in Africa and Middle East in … Read More

Aberdeen University to help develop oil and gas education in Tanzania

Aberdeen University has been awarded a £1.4million grant to help develop oil and gas education in East Africa. The grant will be split with Dar es Salaam University in Tanzania … Read More

Maersk Training to offer advanced training programs to BP drilling teams

BP will offer advanced training programs for its offshore drilling teams under a new global agreement with Maersk Training, further underscoring BP’s commitment to safe and reliable operations. By 2016, … Read More

Atlas Development and Support Solutions expects Kenyan listing by mid December

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] Oil and gas solutions services provider Atlas Development and Support Solutions has said it expects a dual listing on the Growth Enterprise Market Segment (‘GEMS’) of the Nairobi … Read More

Kenya’s oil and gas regulator to fly out trainees under its upstream training programme

[twitter-follow screen_name=’oilnewskenya’] National Oil has unveiled a human resource capacity development programme for the emerging upstream oil and gas sector. The first group of 34 management trainees has already been … Read More