On the same note:

APACHE has committed to drill a wildcat on its Kipungu prospect in deep-water Block L-08 off Kenya next year, a follow-up well to last year’s Mbawa-1 non-commercial gas discovery. Mbawa was a Miocene target while Kipungu is a Lower Cretaceous prospect “with evidence that Jurassic sources still survive in the play”, said exploration manager Dan Foley. “Even by frontier standards, this is a huge structure at 420,000 acres, and if it is successful Apache will mobilise to drill the Kozi lead. Reserve potential could be 600 million barrels in our block alone,” said Foley.

Meanwhile, Anadarko Petroleum is drilling ahead on its Kiboko-1 probe in Block L-07 with results expected within weeks. “We’re hoping Kiboko’s geology will prove oil-prone,” said exploration manager Tom Fletcher.

They have the same mother. I think that's as far the relationship goes.

Hebu jadiliana na hisah, who had his eyes on this some time back. He might have a different opinion to mine.

They have this in their 2012 Annual Report:

"In 2012, the country made discovery of crude oil in the northern area of Turkana. Kenya has the opportunity to become an exporter of petroleum products should the commercial viability of the oil deposits be confirmed and extraction process commences. As you may have read in some publications in the past year, the Total Group is currently present in the Lamu basin prospecting for oil and natural gas. Announcements will be released as works progress."

Wawache mchezo. Hehe. But true, whilst reading the Annual Report you never know what they are talking about when they keep mentioning 'new opportunities'.

An interesting read:

Emerging oil and gas developments in East Africa
http://www.eia.gov/count...fs/East_Africa/eeae.pdf

Thanks alot Man!and u good at mining infor

Africa Oil is pleased to announce the commencement of drilling operations on its Ekales prospect located in Block 13T in the Lokichar Basin in Kenya. The well was spud on July 22, 2013 and has a planned total depth of 2500 metres and is expected to approximately 2 months to drill and evaluate. The primary objectives are the Auwerwer and Lower Lokhone sandstones already established to be highly productive reservoirs at the nearby Ngamia and Twiga discoveries. The prospect is a three way fault closure against the main basin bounding fault and is located directly between, and approximately 15 km northwest of the Ngamia discovery and 7 km south of the Twiga discovery along the "string of pearls" trend. The well is being drilled by the Weatherford #804 rig. The Company holds a 50% working interest in this prospect along with operator Tullow Oil Plc.
Please see attached map, visit the following link: http://media3.marketwire.../130724AOIBasinsMap.pdf
Africa Oil CEO Keith Hill commented, "The Ekales prospect is probably one of the lowest risk prospects in our inventory. The proximity and similarity to the existing Ngamia and Twiga discoveries give us a high degree of confidence that we will find oil and continue to build the discovered resources necessary for commercial volume threshold. Our pace of exploration and appraisal continues to accelerate with the anticipated arrival of three additional rigs in Kenya and Ethiopia in the next 60 days for a total of six rigs, four of which will be operated by Tullow Oil."
The recently announced Etuko discovery, on the flank of the Lokichar basis has opened a new play fairway and provided further confirmation of the world class potential of the Lokichar Basin."
In the South Omo block in Ethiopia, mobilization of the OGEC 75 rig to the Tultule location is underway. This prospect is located 4 kilometres from the Sabisa-1 well which was recently abandoned after proving the existence of the essential hydrocarbon elements of source, seal and reservoir in this frontier basin. It is being drilled on a well-defined horst block feature which should provide good trapping characteristics. The Company holds a 30% working interest in this prospect along with operator Tullow Oil Plc (50%) and Marathon Oil (20%).
The Etuko well in Block 10BB, where an oil discovery was recently announced in shallower reservoirs, has now reached a total depth 3100 metres and log and MDT evaluation have commenced.
The rigs for the Ogaden Basin (Block 7&8) El Kuran-3 prospect in Ethiopia (Africa Oil non-operated working interest: 30%) and the Block 9 Bahasi prospect in Kenya (Africa Oil operated working interest: 50%) are in country and spud of El Kuran-3 is expected in August and Bahasi-1 in September.
One additional lightweight rig has been contracted for testing and drilling operations in the Lokichar Basin and should also be operational in September.

LAPSSET cannot come soon enough for these guys. In the meantime, watafinywa wafinyike...

Turkana pastoralists have rejected a proposal by Tullow Oil to move to a new exploration site at Twiga 2 oil site in Lokichar basin in Turkana South district . Turkana elders claimed that the ongoing oil exploration in the region has interfered with pasture land and that pasture for their animals will be decimated.

The elders who met Tullow Oil and Ministry of Energy officials at Lomokamar oil site in Lokichar basin on Sunday demanded more consultations before Tullow oil is given a nod to explore oil in more wells in the region. "As much as we need the oil, they should also respect our way of life. They should consider that our animals need pasture," said Paul Ekai, a Turkana elder.

Tullow and the ministry officials pleaded with the locals to allow the explorations to take place since more wells are needed to boost commercial viability of the oil in the region which is at the production stage.
Turkana South MP James Lomenen however said Tullow should slow the exploration until the disputed pasture land until matters are addressed. “We appeal to Tullow oil to continue exploration in the other sites that the community earlier gave consent. But we needed more consultations with the community in Twiga 2 oil site which Tullow oil want to put a rig," Lomenen said.

The MP said the local communities were complaining that the Oil explorations has caused more harm to the environment owing to the fact that pasture land is being interfered with in the on going oil exploration activities in the region.

But an official at Tullow, who declined to be named, defended the oil exploration activities in the oil sites saying no big chunk of land can be affected by the oil drilling activities since the drilling rig is the size of a plate deeply sunk into the ground.
http://www.standardmedia...ose-tullow-oil-proposal

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