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Kenya Creates New Exploration Blocks

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Kenya’s Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has created an extra 17 new oil exploration blocks, bringing the total number of blocks available for licensing to 63. The ministry plans to auction off the blocks in 2017, Kenyan newspapers quoted Ministry of Energy and Petroleum official as saying.

The Standard newspaper quoted the Ministry as saying it aimed to hold an auction for the new blocks in 2017. “We constituted all the blocks and the country now has 63 blocks …. We now have 17 blocks to license,” the Standard quoted Martin Heya, the Ministry’s commissioner for Petroleum Energy, as saying.


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