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Kenya to award Turkana-Lamu crude pipeline tender this month

The Government is expected to award the contract for the design of the planned 892-kilometre crude oil pipeline between Turkana and Lamu July this year. The route will enable Kenya export oil on commercial basis.

The firm is expected to start works later this year, while the construction will commence in 2018. It will be completed around 2020. The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum said it would award the contracts for environmental audit in the course of July.

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