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Tullow expects to fully develop Turkana oil fields by 2020

A Tullow oil field in Turkana, northwest Kenya

NAIROBI: Tullow Oil has announced that the oil fields in Turkana will be fully developed by 2020, ahead of restarting of drilling in Lokichar Basin before December.

The UK gas and oil exploration company published the production update yesterday where it gave a similar timeline for the Ugandan operation in the Lake Albert basin. Both projects are being developed independently and are collectively estimated to have more than 1.7 billion barrels crude oil reserves.

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