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Uganda:
Oil Industry First Dividends
Independent (Kampala), 11 October 2013
Following the issuance of Uganda's first oil production licence to China's National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to start the development of the Kingfisher Oil Field in Lake… Read more »
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Uganda:
With Our Oil, We Must Build a 'Welfare State'
Independent (Kampala), 11 October 2013
Kavuma-KaggwaWith the oil and gas money we should provide completely free education, health and health. Read more »
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Kenya:
Oil Company Strikes Yet Another Well in Turkana
The Star, 27 September 2013
Canadian oil and gas company Africa Oil Corp has announced that it has discovered oil in its Ekales well in Block 13T in Kenya. The company said analysis of wireline logs and… Read more »
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Kenya:
Predicting Africa's Next Oil Insurgency
ThinkAfricaPress, 13 September 2013
The recent discovery of oil deposits in Kenya's Turkana County could increase insecurity in the region. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Envoy - FG Offers to Assist Kenya in Oil Exploitation
This Day, 5 September 2013
Following the discovery of oil in Kenya by London listed multinational Tullow Oil in March, the federal government has indicated that it would offer assistance to the East… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Nigeria to Assist Kenya to Develop Oil Sector - Envoy
Vanguard, 5 September 2013
Nigeria's High Commissioner to Kenya, Mr Akin Oyateru, said in Nairobi on Thursday that Nigeria would assist Kenya in the management of its oil industry. Read more »
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Kenya:
Kenyan Oil Wells Commercially Viable, Tullow Says
Sabahi, 1 August 2013
London-based oil exploration firm Tullow announced Wednesday (July 31st) that Kenya's Etuko-1, the most recent well the firm has drilled, has shown signs of commercially viable oil… Read more »
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Kenya:
Oil Sparks Border Row in Garissa and Isiolo
The Star, 16 July 2013
lsiolo Deputy Governor Mohamed Guleid wants the Isiolo and Garrissa county governments to convene a forum over the boundary where oil has been discovered. Read more »
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East Africa:
Can Pipeline Dreams Become Reality?
ThinkAfricaPress, 12 July 2013
Can a regional project for two new oil pipelines be realised with such volatile neighbourly relations? Read more »
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Uganda:
Total to Resume Search for Oil in Nwoya District
Observer, 7 October 2013
Total E&P says it is waiting for UPDF clearance to resume three dimensional (3-D) seismic surveys for oil in the northern district of Nwoya. Read more »
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Uganda:
Oil - 'We Are On a Steady and Sure Path'
Independent (Kampala), 4 October 2013
On Sept. 25, 2013, Acting Energy and Mineral Development Minister Peter Lokeris announced the handing over of the country's first oil production licence to the Chinese company… Read more »
