Questions raised over early oil project’s legal loopholes

Trucks of the first crude oil consignment from Lokichar,Turkana arrives at the Mombasa's Changamwe KPRL storage facility in Mombasa County. [Maarufu Mohamed/Standard]

The Petroleum ministry and exploration firm Tullow Oil may have skipped a critical project implementation step in their push to start trucking crude oil to Mombasa.

Tullow, which is overseeing the implementation of the Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS), may have failed to undertake research on the impact the project would have on the community and the environment, which could be a breach of environmental laws.