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Tullow says Turkana oil project facing delays

Trucks of the first crude oil consignment from Lokichar,Turkana, arrive at the Mombasa's Changamwe KPRL storage facility in Mombasa County on Thursday,07th June,2018 afternoon. [Maarufu Mohamed,Standard]

NAIROBI, KENYA: Kenya may not be an oil exporter by 2022 as Tullow cites delays by the Government to make key decisions to enable the project to move forward.

The firm had expected that its joint investment partners and the Government would be able to make the Final Investment Decision (FID) by the end this year but this is likely to spill to 2020.

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