A source close to the project confirmed the Japanese player was selected by Kenya’s Ministry of Energy & Petroleum in the past four weeks: “They have appointed Toyota as the lead contractor for the pipeline.”
The pipeline aims to exploit 1.2 billion barrels of crude controlled by Tullow Oil, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and Total in Uganda’s Lake Albert area and 600 million barrels of oil discovered by Tullow and Africa Oil sited in the Lokichar basin in northern Kenya.
Initially,
