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This will see Kenya join the elite club of oil exporters, a big boost for the country. Kenya is a net importer of oil and has always borne the blunt of spikes in oil prices blamed for sustained high prices of essential commodities as well as a weak local currency. Tullow has said it expects a pipeline to be in place by end of next year, to pave way for commercial production and crude oil export. Contained in its latest financial report, Tullow says commercial oil production in Kenya could result in around 100,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd).
This is about $5 million a day on the current pricing of $50 per barrel of crude oil. Kenya could make about $1.825 billion or Sh166 billion annually at the minimum. Drilled wells Tullow, which has had wild success in exploration in Kenya, has in the past estimated that there are about a billion barrels of oil in the Southern Lokichar area. The estimates are based on wells the firm has so far drilled in the region, but expects the quantities to go up as it continues drilling as well as doing further tests on previously drilled wells. The plans to go ahead with oil production are also on the back of what the firm said was a substantial reduction in exploration budget for the country. The firm says Kenya and Uganda have agreed to a pipeline that will transport crude oil from Lake Albert Rift Basin in Uganda to either Mombasa port or Lamu. “In Kenya, development studies have commenced which could result in production of around 100,000 bopd gross. The joint venture partnerships in both countries (Kenya and Uganda) are aiming to reach project sanction, which includes a regional export pipeline, by the end of 2016,” said Tullow in its full year results for 2014 released last week. “The current ambition is to reach project sanction for development of the South Lokichar and Lake Albert resources, including an export pipeline, by the end of 2016.”
The governments of Kenya and Uganda have signed a Memorandum of Understanding and formed a Steering Committee to progress a regional crude oil export pipeline from Uganda through Kenya. Tullow added that upstream players in Kenya and Uganda had signed a cooperation agreement supporting the planned start of commercial production and have completed significant pipeline studies to define the pipeline route options and the technical specifications. Energy Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir confirmed that Toyota Tshusho had completed a study, which paves way for development of the pipeline. He said energy ministers in the region are meeting in Nairobi in the ongoing EAC Summit to deliberate on the issue. “We are meeting as council of ministers on the sidelines of the EAC Summit to discuss the pipeline. And then on March 6, we will meet in Kigali to receive a report from the technical team,” said Chirchir.
The export pipeline route on the Kenyan side is expected to run mostly underground, over 850 kilometres from the Lokichar basin to the coast. Kenya is to construct the pipeline from Lokichar basin while Uganda is expected to construct its part of the pipeline from the Lake Albert rift basin to link up with the Kenyan pipeline and another from South Sudan. The planned production date of late 2016 could coincide with the time when Kenya prepares for 2017 polls, which many will see as a major addition to the campaign chest of the Jubilee administration.
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/business/article/2000152394/kenya-could-export-crude-oil-next-year/?pageNo=1
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