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National Oil to raise Sh175b to buy into oil blocks

Kenya's state-run National Oil Corporation will raise $2 billion to take stakes in oil blocks on behalf of the government once they near commercial production, it said on Wednesday.

Kenya estimates its crude oil reserves to be about 1 billion barrels and the government can legally take a stake in oil blocks under commercial production through National Oil.

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