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Trucks of the first crude oil consignment from Lokichar, Turkana arrived at Mombasa's Changamwe KPRL storage facility in Mombasa County on June 7, 2018. [File, Standard]
Frequent changes in the plan outlining how Tullow will develop the oil fields of Lokichar in Turkana County have been the reason that the government has not approved the plan nearly five years after it was first submitted.
The approval for the Field Development Plan (FDP), which outlines the strategy and steps for developing the oil fields, has had to be resubmitted several times to the government owing to a mix of factors.
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