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South Sudan’s first ever energy and infrastructure conference, endorsed by the Ministry of Petroleum and organized by Africa Oil & Power, launched last week and was oversubscribed by 30 percent. … Read More
Tullow Oil will in October commence acquisition of 2D seismic in two adjacent blocks it operates in Northern Kenya namely Block 12A and 12B OilNews Kenya has learnt. Tullow Oil … Read More
Total has written to Uganda assuring the country that it will not abandon the $3.55 billion heated crude oil pipeline through Tanzania after buying assets in neighbouring Kenya. The news … Read More
Total has announced that the Boards of Total and A.P. Møller – Mærsk have both approved the acquisition of 100% of the equity of the E&P company Maersk Oil & Gas, a wholly owned subsidiary … Read More
Standard Bank Uganda alongside Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. will be tasked with raising $3.55 billion required for the Hoima to Tanga 1,445-kilometer (898-mile) pipeline after they were contracted by … Read More
President Yoweri Museveni and his Tanzania counterpart Joseph Pombe Magufuli have commissioned the construction of the 1,445km-long East African crude oil pipeline from Hoima district in Uganda to the Tanzanian … Read More
The Etiir-1 exploration well, which targeted a large, shallow, structural closure immediately to the west of the Greater Etom structure, spudded in late June and dry with no material reservoir … Read More
Kenya is currently the second leading East African country with estimated 750 million barrels in only two blocks that is 13T and 10B in Lokichar Basin,South Turkana; after Uganda’s recoverable … Read More
The Kenya Civil Society Platform on Oil and Gas (KCSPOG) has reignited calls for the Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) pilot scheme to be cancelled all together days after the … Read More
The much anticipated early oil pilot scheme project expected to commence later this month has been suspended indefinitely until the new senate passes the Petroleum (Exploration, Development and Production) Bill, 2015. Speaking … Read More
