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Kenya’s oil export plan pushed to 2018

An oil rig at the Ngamia-1 well in Turkana. Export of Kenya's new oil find has been pushed to next year.

Plans by Government to export crude oil produced in Turkana County on a pilot basis have been further delayed. This means exportation is now expected to take place next year.

Tullow Oil, which will undertake the pilot project on behalf of the Government, yesterday said trial would kick off early next year. This is against expectations that Kenya would ship out the first barrel by end of 2017.

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