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Friday, November 1, 2013
The government in Kenya wants exploration action to resume on two of Tullow Oil’s blocks in the country, Block 10BB and Block 13T. Exploration halted due to protests regarding its activities in the area.
Energy and Petroleum Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir said the government will hold talks with protesters. Residents from the remote northern Turkana community marched on Tullow sites demanding more jobs and other benefits, prompting the firm to stop its work.
Chirchir said that he had already met with the management of Tullow and would meet with the leaders from the Turkana region to discuss the issues that led to the protests. “So we will be talking through those issues, we would like as early as Monday, Tuesday for operations to be resumed, ” he told reporters on the sidelines of a regional east African oil and gas conference.
Tullow has said that about 860 out of the 1,400 workers on their sites were from Turkana region.
“We want to show the leadership (of the protesters) the numbers, and to the extent that there could be a challenge where locals should have been employed and employment has happened from outside, we would like to talk to that, ” he said.
Chirchir went on to say that said he would try to convince the local residents to accept that some jobs could be held by people from other parts of the country who had the required skills.
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