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Tullow Oil says facing worker unrest at Kenya exploration blocks

 

Tullow Oil said on Friday it was facing industrial action at a number of its drilling sites in northern Kenya, and a local leader said the company had evacuated some workers.

Independent oil and gas explorer Tullow Oil and its partner in northern Kenya, Africa Oil, have struck commercially viable deposits of oil in the Lokichar basin in Turkana, where it has discovered resources of about 600 million barrels.

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