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Kenya sells first crude oil to UK-based Chinese company

By Reuters | Aug. 16, 2019

***A truck ferrying the first crude oil from Lokichar, Turkana County, arrives at the Mombasa's Changamwe KPRL storage facility in Mombasa in June 2018. [Maarufu Mohamed, Standard]***

Kenya is set to export its first crude oil after the government and a group led by explorer Tullow Oil picked trading company ChemChina UK Ltd to buy its first shipments, the Petroleum and Mining Ministry said.

“ChemChina UK Ltd has been selected as the buyer for Kenya’s first crude oil exports,” Petroleum Principal Secretary Andrew Kamau said in a statement on Thursday. He did not give details on when shipments would commence.

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