The proposed tender, disclosed by Energy Minister KiratuMurungi at a New Delhi conference cited by Reuters, follows work to map out newblocks from portions of acreage earlier surrendered by Tullow Oil and AnadarkoPetroleum under the terms of their production sharing contracts.
The country’s offshore play is becoming increasinglyattractive for explorers following major gas discoveries in neighbouringTanzania and Mozambique that have uncovered potentially huge resource potentialin the hot East Africa region.
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