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Kenya on fast track to join world’s top oil producers

British oil exploration firm Tullow has struck fresh oil deposits at Amosing-1 and Ewoi-1 wells in Turkana County, increasing estimates of discovered resources in the region.

By MACHARIA  KAMAU

Turkana County could be holding well over a billion barrels of oil, which have the potential to place the region as a key oil province globally. This is after British oil explorer Tullow Oil announced that it had struck oil in two more wells – Amosing 1 and Ewoi 1 – in the county.

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