
Tuesday, October 18, 2016
Tullow Oil Plc’s Kenyan unit said in an advertisement run in the Daily Nation newspaper that it is looking for trucking companies to transport crude from its fields in northwestern Kenya to northwestern fields to the port city of Mombasa as the East African nation rushes to export its first oil by mid-2017.
The work involves taking crude from Tullow and its partner’s (Africa Oil) pilot production project and trucking it in insulated containers from a production facility near Lokichar to storage facilities run by Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd.
The pilot production project is a stop gap measure until a pipeline is built to carry the crude produced in the northwestern oil fields to the Kenyan coastline for export, planned for 2021.