Complex demands as Turkana oil reserves grow

Technical staff at the Tullow Oil plant in northern Kenya. Oil drilling requires highly skilled technicians.

Tullow Oil has now discovered oil in seven wells, raising the estimates of the discovered resources in the Turkana basin to one billion barrels of oil. Our writer KIUNDU WAWERU visited the Turkana basin recently and highlights the expectations of different stakeholders

This month Tullow Oil announced the sixth and seventh oil finds in Turkana basin. The announcement came shortly before we made a visit to Tullow’s operating fields in the hot Turkana desert with an oil and gas expert from Africa Oil, Tullow’s partners, and several senior engineers.