Brother i know that cost analysis of mining all minerals is neccessary , but again whoever is doing exploration has to give sound advice to the gvt as regards the process and infrastructure..one thing i will say is Tullow is a bad advisor and has mastered how to eat unsuspected..did you here it wanted some huge compensation from gvt! anyway lets wait and see. maybe check out on the history of tullow.

Tullow is hogwash! it will discover and discover and diacover...but has not exported a single barrell. Foreigners know how to cheat black Africans.

By George Obulutsa

NAIROBI, April 30 (Reuters) - Kenya has proposed rules requiring oil exploration firms to give local investors a 5 percent stake and use local suppliers and staff for their services to get a bigger share of earnings from the new sector.

East Africa has become a hot spot for oil and gas exploration in recent years, spurred by new finds, but Kenya has yet to update its legal framework for the sector.

Tullow Oil and Africa Oil have estimated discoveries of 600 million barrels to the northwest of Kenya, and plan to submit their development plans to the government by late 2015 prior to commercial production.

The rules are expected to be passed by parliament by August along with a revised petroleum bill, said Ministry of Petroleum and Energy Principal Secretary Joseph Njoroge.

"It is to encourage utilisation of local resources, equipment, whatever is available locally must take precedence over foreign, mostly the human capital, (which) we have a lot," Njoroge told Reuters.

Oil industry analysts and observers say the law will be a boon for local companies and workers in the near-term, but that there would be need for programmes to expand capacity if Kenyans were to meet all the laid out requirements in the regulations.

@hisah, What's your take on this?