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Kenya opts to build its own oil pipeline

Posted on April 22, 2016

Government convinced its efforts to persuade Uganda would not succeed.

President Uhuru Kenyatta meets Uganda President Yoweri Museveni at Entebbe State House, Uganda, on August 9, 2015. Talks between Kenya and Uganda on the pipeline route have taken over a month with President Kenyatta and President Museveni meeting in Nairobi last month. Kenya will construct its own pipeline to transport crude oil from the Lake Turkana Basin to Lamu for export, it has emerged.

In Summary

- Kenya will construct its own pipeline to transport crude oil from the Lake Turkana Basin to Lamu for export, it has emerged.
- Top government sources on Thursday revealed Kenya was convinced its efforts to persuade Uganda that the Hoima-Lokichar-Lamu route was the most cost effective option for the regional pipeline would not succeed.
- On Thursday, Kenya and Uganda delegations were locked up in make or break talks in Kampala over the route even as reports last week indicated that Uganda had opted to go for the Tanzania route.


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