Ethiopia: 'No Oil Discovered' Says Ethiopia and UK Company

5 March 2013

Addis Abab — The Ethiopian government and Tullow Oil Plc, has dismissed media reports that the UK company has discovered oil along Ethiopia's western South Omo block.

The London-based company, which found crude oil in Kenya last year, is searching for a possible petroleum basin in Ethiopia's South Omo valley as extension of the oil resources from neighbouring Kenya.

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