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Why Kenya might miss June deadline for first oil export

Besides hype and excitement, Kenya’s plan to export its first barrel of crude oil could be off to a slow start.

While the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has set mid to end of June date for the flagging off of the ship that will export the first oil cargo and sustain the pilot until end of 2019, several factors are at play and could put a damper to the hyped Early Oil Pilot Scheme.

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