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Kenya could take up to five years to pump oil

Tullow Oil announced that it had struck oil in two more wells pushing the estimates for the Turkana basin to 600 million barrels of oil. But the firm noted the overall potential for the region could well be over a billion barrels.

By MACHARIA KAMAU

KENYA: Kenya should be optimistic but also cautious about its oil finds as well as prospect of being an oil producer. The success rate that British oil explorer Tullow Oil has had while drilling exploratory wells has driven the country into a frenzy about the prospect of being an oil producer.

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