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Tullow ends virus hiatus but Kenya budding oil export plan still in limbo

Workers walk past storage tanks at Tullow Oil's Ngamia 8 drilling site in Lokichar, Turkana County, Kenya, February 8, 2018. [Reuters]

While operations at Tullow Oil’s Turkana oil fields are slowly resuming following a three-month hiatus, commercialisation of Kenya’s oil still faces major delays.

The company together with its partners Total and Africa Oil, Tullow had in May issued the government with a force majeure notice in which it said it could not meet its contractual obligations due to Covid-19 restrictions.

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