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Kenya smells crude oil cash as pilot project set to go live

An oil rig at the Ngamia-1 well, in the Lokichar basin. The Early Oil Pilot Scheme will kick off on Sunday. [File, Standard]

The earliest Kenya can export her first barrel of crude oil will be in December, even as it embarks on trucking the first 600 barrels from Turkana to Mombasa this Sunday.

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