Tullow sends home 20 percent of its employees

A general view shows an oil rig used in drilling at the Ngamia-1 well on Block 10BB, in the Lokichar basin

TURKANA, KENYA: Tullow Oil has over the last one year substantially reduced its number of employees in Kenya.

This has been through failure to renew contracts that were up for renewal in the course of the year as well as actual layoffs, where employees were sent home after being given a send-off package.