Kenya signs design contract for Sh210bn oil pipeline TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2017 14:31

Sammuel999 · 2017-10-24T16:16:00+00:00

Yo geza Today is not your day fena British oil explorer Tullow on Tuesday signed a crude oil pipeline agreement with Kenya, paving the way for preliminary works on the planned line expected to be completed in four years. The pact draws the legal and technical roadmap for the project’s early works such as mapping out the route for the pipeline and environmental assessment for compliance. Tullow Oil has since 2012 struck 750 million barrels of the black gold, considered commercially viable, leading to plans of constructing the 865-kilometre pipeline from Lokichar, Turkana, to coastal Lamu town. “This joint development study agreement provides the framework for the pipeline development,” said Energy Secretary Charles Keter said today. He said the framework has given the ministry leeway to start inviting investor bids from next week to prepare the pipeline’s design, dubbed front end engineering design (FEED), and carry out an environmental social impact assessment (ESIA) study. Costly The line is expected to be completed in 2021 at a cost of Sh210 billion, making it the second most expensive infrastructure project after the Mombasa-Nairobi standard gauge railway (SGR). Tullow has been exploring and developing the Turkana oilfields jointly with partners Canada-based Africa Oil and Danish firm Maersk. Kenya opted to go it alone in building the pipeline after oil-rich Uganda, which originally favoured a route though Kenya, said it would build its line through Tanzania .

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Start date Oct 24, 2017

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