Kenya expects to have its oil export facility at the port of Lamu operational by the end of this year, by which time Tullow Oil is expected to have sanctioned the foundation stage of its Lokichar basin development.
An 821-kilometre pipeline will be built from the Turkana oilfields to Lamu at an expected cost of $1.1 billion.
“The Port of Lamu where the pipeline is going to go is almost finished — I think by the end of this year we should be operational,” Andrew Kamau, Principal Secretary of Kenya’s State Department of Petroleum at the Ministry of Energy & Petroleum, said at the CERAWeek by IHS Markit conference in Houston this week.
