DRC and South Sudan to link on Uganda, Tanzania pipeline
DRC and South Sudan to link on Uganda, Tanzania pipeline
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Hiyo ndiyo historia uliyofundishwa kidato cha nne kuwa bomba la mafuta la Sudani Kusini limepita Darfur kwenda Port Said!!!! my foot!! ni sawa ni kusema barabara ya kwenda Arusha kuelekea Nairobi inapita KIGOMA yaani mkoa wa Kigoma!!!! mbona mnamuaibisha sana aliyekuwa waziri wa elimu enzi yako Mhe Shukuru na BRN zake!!!! Darfur ipo Western part of Sudan na siyo Eastern part penye bahari!!!
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duuh pole bro bur your knowledge on oil is amateurish at best..
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Yes, thats trues, east africa is a major emerging oil province in the world. Kenya alone has 4 major troughs, anza, graben, mandera and lamu.Only one basin in the graben trough is being drilled currently( south lokichar), and it is prolific as hell, actualy in oil terms the ngamia oil well can be classified as a "super well", that shit has a oil pay zone of over 250 metres, thats why there are already over eight appraisal wells sorrounding ngamia 1well.In the South kerio basin the basin opening well chepkutet 1 has gross oil show pay zone of over 700 metres!. To the other troughs, eg the anza in marsabit and turkana region, corresponds to the prolific melut and muglad oil basins in s.sudan, the first well there paipai 1 had oil too !drilled in 2014. Mandera basin extends to somalia and ethiopia, in this one it has oil too.. you can google that under taarbaj oil well in wajir. Actually in that area called taarbaj oil sometimes flows to the surface.Still on mandera basin, in somalia its already very good under salala oil fields. So yes Kenya has lots of oil just as tz has lots of gas
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With more exploration there is lots of oil in east africa, eg discovered oil seeps in africa include,
Oil seeps have been recorded in the region as follows:
* In the Blue Nile Gorge and Ganale River in Ethiopia
* In a Jurassic outcrop near Tarbaj in Kenya
* On Pemba Island, and at Wingayonqo and Mnazi Bay in coastal Tanzania
* At Nhangela Lake in Mozam bique.
Oil seeps have been recorded in the region as follows:
* In the Blue Nile Gorge and Ganale River in Ethiopia
* In a Jurassic outcrop near Tarbaj in Kenya
* On Pemba Island, and at Wingayonqo and Mnazi Bay in coastal Tanzania
* At Nhangela Lake in Mozam bique.
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bongo-live, in oil industry such assumptions don't attract investment in either a pipeline or a refinery! Only proven oil reserves do...Tanzania can also choose to brag about having similar rock formation structures just like lake albert region!
But since we know what it takes to hav oil we don't run loose mouths.. We r leaving that to Total to do a discovery!
But since we know what it takes to hav oil we don't run loose mouths.. We r leaving that to Total to do a discovery!
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Speculation makes sense were commercial quantities r being found
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Livale n bongo-live, A reason despite all that rosy picture ur media tried to paint Kenya's oil industry, still the pipeline went to Tanga instead to Lamu!
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Dont mock the kenyans on oil!, i dont like them too but you cannot battle geography, by the way tullow is continuing to drill more wells as from september, that will continue to increase the gross contigent. Ever heard of de-risked prospects?
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bongo-live Tullow is bankrupt as we speak! Total n Uganda govt messed them up with their choice of Tanga route!
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bongo-live CNOOC returned most of exploration blocks in Kenya after unsuccessful exploration at most of the blocks in Northern Kenya an offshore blocks..
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Mzee geza vipi wewe? tullow oil just made profits, heres friday news from daily telegraph u.k
Tullow Oil delivers surprise profit despite production woes
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Tullow Oil shrugged off lower production and weaker oil prices to post a surprise first half profit CREDIT: JODY AMIET/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
By Jillian Ambrose
27 JULY 2016 • 5:54PM
T ullow Oil has delivered a surprise half-year profit, despite production issues at its West African fields and weak oil prices.
The mid-cap explorer was expected to report a post-tax loss of $196m, but made a $30m profit. Pre-tax profit totalled $24m, compared with a loss of $10m last year.
Tullow’s unexpected growth comes in spite of low oil prices and falling production. Prices averaged less than $40 a barrel in the first six months of the year, and dropped to less than $28 in January. In the same period last year, the average price of a barrel of oil was $56.
“Tullow is well placed to move forward with a restructured and more efficient business that can deliver growth”
Tullow Oil chief executive Aidan Heavey
Ian Springett, Tullow’s finance boss, said the explorer has protected its production against the weaker market price by hedging around half of its volumes at $74 a barrel for 2016 and dramatically cutting spending levels at its already low-cost portfolio. For next year the company has locked in a price of $65 a barrel for its oil, he added.
“Even if oil prices were to fall we’re pretty well protected,” Mr Springett said, adding that the company should achieve free cash flow by the fourth quarter.
Tullow also suffered an extended shutdown of its Jubilee oilfield off the coast of Ghana in April
. Production restarted in early May.
The oilfield produced 62,900 barrels of oil a day in the first half, but this is expected to reach 85,000 barrel a day in the second half of the year. Tullow is also due to begin production at its TEN oilfield, which is also located off the coast of Ghana, in August.
Aidan Heavey, chief executive of Tullow, said the TEN field would be "transformational” for the company as it would allow it to increase production while cutting costs, and help it to tackle its $4.7bn debt pile .
"Tullow is therefore well placed to move forward with a restructured and more efficient business that can deliver growth from its portfolio of high quality, low cost producing, development and exploration assets,” Mr Heavey said.
Tullow Oil delivers surprise profit despite production woes
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Tullow Oil shrugged off lower production and weaker oil prices to post a surprise first half profit CREDIT: JODY AMIET/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
By Jillian Ambrose
27 JULY 2016 • 5:54PM
T ullow Oil has delivered a surprise half-year profit, despite production issues at its West African fields and weak oil prices.
The mid-cap explorer was expected to report a post-tax loss of $196m, but made a $30m profit. Pre-tax profit totalled $24m, compared with a loss of $10m last year.
Tullow’s unexpected growth comes in spite of low oil prices and falling production. Prices averaged less than $40 a barrel in the first six months of the year, and dropped to less than $28 in January. In the same period last year, the average price of a barrel of oil was $56.
“Tullow is well placed to move forward with a restructured and more efficient business that can deliver growth”
Tullow Oil chief executive Aidan Heavey
Ian Springett, Tullow’s finance boss, said the explorer has protected its production against the weaker market price by hedging around half of its volumes at $74 a barrel for 2016 and dramatically cutting spending levels at its already low-cost portfolio. For next year the company has locked in a price of $65 a barrel for its oil, he added.
“Even if oil prices were to fall we’re pretty well protected,” Mr Springett said, adding that the company should achieve free cash flow by the fourth quarter.
Tullow also suffered an extended shutdown of its Jubilee oilfield off the coast of Ghana in April
. Production restarted in early May.
The oilfield produced 62,900 barrels of oil a day in the first half, but this is expected to reach 85,000 barrel a day in the second half of the year. Tullow is also due to begin production at its TEN oilfield, which is also located off the coast of Ghana, in August.
Aidan Heavey, chief executive of Tullow, said the TEN field would be "transformational” for the company as it would allow it to increase production while cutting costs, and help it to tackle its $4.7bn debt pile .
"Tullow is therefore well placed to move forward with a restructured and more efficient business that can deliver growth from its portfolio of high quality, low cost producing, development and exploration assets,” Mr Heavey said.
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cnooc were in block 9 (anza basin) in isiolo, where they drilled the deepest oil exploration well in e.africa at almost 4000m, and they discovered gas in that block, about 3-4 tcf. They left that block leaving africa oil as the operator. South lokichar where tullow is the operator is not in the anza basin!
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Heres some stale news on some of the blocks.....>>>June 24, 2014 02:00 ET
Africa Oil Announces New Gas Discovery at Sala Prospect in Block 9 in Kenya
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - June 24, 2014) - Africa Oil Corp. (TSX:AOI)(OMX:AOI) ("Africa Oil" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has made a gas discovery in Block 9 onshore Kenya. The Sala-1 drilled a large 80 square kilometer anticlinal feature along the northern basin bounding fault in the Cretaceous Anza graben and encountered several sandstone intervals which had oil and gas shows. The well was drilled to a total depth of 3030 meters and petrophysical analysis indicated three zones of interest over a 1000 meter gross interval which were subsequently drill stem tested. An upper gas bearing interval tested dry gas at a maximum rate of 6 mmcf/d from a 25 meter net pay interval. The interval had net reservoir sand of over 125 meters and encountered a gas water contact so there is potential to drill up-dip on the structure where this entire interval will be above the gas-water contact. A lower interval tested at low rates of dry gas from a 50m potential net pay interval which can also be accessed at the up-dip location. It should also be noted that there were oil shows while drilling and small amounts of oil were recovered during drilling and testing which indicates there may be potential for oil down-dip on the structure. Africa Oil is the Operator of Block 9 with a 50% working interest. Marathon Oil Kenya Limited B.V. has the remaining 50% interest.
An appraisal plan to follow up this discovery is currently being evaluated by the partnership in consultation with the Kenyan government. Plans being discussed include an up-dip location to confirm the areal extent of the gas zones tested where the full net sand interval can be intersected above the gas-water contact. The partnership is also considering a down-dip appraisal location to test an on-lapping stratigraphic wedge on the flanks of the structure which is of the same age as the zones in the nearby Ndovu-1 well which had oil and gas shows.
In addition, the Company is considering drilling an appraisal well on the crest of the large Bogal structure to confirm this large potential gas discovery which has closure over an area of up to 200 square kilometers. The gross best estimate of prospective resources for Bogal are 1.8 trillion cubic feet of gas based on a third-party independent resource assessment. The Company currently has two optional slots on the Great Wall drilling rig used to drill the Sala-1 well that are available for this appraisal program.
The Company believes there is a very strong market for gas development in Kenya and have already engaged in discussions with power companies and the government to potentially fast track a gas to power project that could add significant value and create benefits for the people of Kenya. In 2013 the Government of Kenya launched its "+5000 MW by 2016 - Power to transform Kenya" initiative with ambitious plans to increase Kenya's power generating capacity by 5,000 Mega Watts in 40 months. This plan includes significant generating capacity fuelled by imported LNG and coal which are currently being bid. The discovery of indigenous gas in significant quantities in Block 9 has the potential to offer a far more cost effective fuel source for these power projects that will also provide positive environmental and local development benefits. Significant interest exists with development agencies and commercial independent power producers to partner on power developments in Kenya.
Africa Oil CEO Keith Hill stated, "We are very excited about the opening a new basin and the possibilities of bringing significant value to the Company by our Block 9 discovery. Not only is there a great need for power in Kenya, there is also the potential for downdip oil and for additional prospects on trend. We have a number of leads along this basin bounding fault and additional seismic data is being considered. We continue to have a very active exploration and appraisal program in both Kenya and Ethiopia and have made significant progress in moving the South Turkana pipeline and development program forward in cooperation with the Kenyan government."
The Company is also pleased to update additional exploration and appraisal activities in Kenya and Ethiopia.
In Kenya, the Company has 4 additional rigs active in the South Turkana Basin where oil discoveries have previously been announced at Ngamia, Twiga, Agete, Amosing, Ekales, Etuko and Ewoi.
The PR Marriott 46 rig has recently completed the Ngamia-2 well which was drilled 1.7 km from the Ngamia-1 discovery well to test the northwest flank of the prospect. The well encountered up to 39 meters of net oil pay and 11 meters of net gas pay and appears to have identified a new fault block trap north of the main Ngamia accumulation. The reservoirs were high quality with more than 200 meters of net reservoir sands with good permeability inferred from MDT sampling. The well has been suspended for testing and the rig will continue to drill up to 4 additional appraisal wells in the Ngamia field area for an extended well test program. A 3D seismic program is currently being concluded over the field area which should allow for detailed mapping of the fault trends.
The SMP-5 rig has completed testing operations on the Agete-1 well where it confirmed the Auwerwer pay previously released, the well flow rate was tested at 500 barrels of oil per day. This rig is now currently on location at the Ewoi-1 discovery and is preparing to test, after which it will continue to be used to test discovery and appraisal wells in this basin.
The Weatherford 804 rig is currently drilling the Agete-2 downdip appraisal well and will then move to drill the Etom prospect located 7 kilometers north of the Agete discovery along the basin bounding 'string of pearls' trend.
The Sakson PR-5 rig is drilling ahead on the Amosing-2 downdip appraisal well, with a planned sidetrack, and will then move to drill the Kodos and Epir (formerly Aze) prospects, which will be the first exploratory wells to test the Kerio Basin, located immediately adjacent to the prolific S. Lokichar basin.
Finally, the Exalo 205 rig is drilling ahead on the Gardim prospect, located in the Chew Bahir basin in the South Omo block in Ethiopia. The partnership is in discussions on the next prospect to be considered for drilling in this block.
Africa Oil Announces New Gas Discovery at Sala Prospect in Block 9 in Kenya
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - June 24, 2014) - Africa Oil Corp. (TSX:AOI)(OMX:AOI) ("Africa Oil" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has made a gas discovery in Block 9 onshore Kenya. The Sala-1 drilled a large 80 square kilometer anticlinal feature along the northern basin bounding fault in the Cretaceous Anza graben and encountered several sandstone intervals which had oil and gas shows. The well was drilled to a total depth of 3030 meters and petrophysical analysis indicated three zones of interest over a 1000 meter gross interval which were subsequently drill stem tested. An upper gas bearing interval tested dry gas at a maximum rate of 6 mmcf/d from a 25 meter net pay interval. The interval had net reservoir sand of over 125 meters and encountered a gas water contact so there is potential to drill up-dip on the structure where this entire interval will be above the gas-water contact. A lower interval tested at low rates of dry gas from a 50m potential net pay interval which can also be accessed at the up-dip location. It should also be noted that there were oil shows while drilling and small amounts of oil were recovered during drilling and testing which indicates there may be potential for oil down-dip on the structure. Africa Oil is the Operator of Block 9 with a 50% working interest. Marathon Oil Kenya Limited B.V. has the remaining 50% interest.
An appraisal plan to follow up this discovery is currently being evaluated by the partnership in consultation with the Kenyan government. Plans being discussed include an up-dip location to confirm the areal extent of the gas zones tested where the full net sand interval can be intersected above the gas-water contact. The partnership is also considering a down-dip appraisal location to test an on-lapping stratigraphic wedge on the flanks of the structure which is of the same age as the zones in the nearby Ndovu-1 well which had oil and gas shows.
In addition, the Company is considering drilling an appraisal well on the crest of the large Bogal structure to confirm this large potential gas discovery which has closure over an area of up to 200 square kilometers. The gross best estimate of prospective resources for Bogal are 1.8 trillion cubic feet of gas based on a third-party independent resource assessment. The Company currently has two optional slots on the Great Wall drilling rig used to drill the Sala-1 well that are available for this appraisal program.
The Company believes there is a very strong market for gas development in Kenya and have already engaged in discussions with power companies and the government to potentially fast track a gas to power project that could add significant value and create benefits for the people of Kenya. In 2013 the Government of Kenya launched its "+5000 MW by 2016 - Power to transform Kenya" initiative with ambitious plans to increase Kenya's power generating capacity by 5,000 Mega Watts in 40 months. This plan includes significant generating capacity fuelled by imported LNG and coal which are currently being bid. The discovery of indigenous gas in significant quantities in Block 9 has the potential to offer a far more cost effective fuel source for these power projects that will also provide positive environmental and local development benefits. Significant interest exists with development agencies and commercial independent power producers to partner on power developments in Kenya.
Africa Oil CEO Keith Hill stated, "We are very excited about the opening a new basin and the possibilities of bringing significant value to the Company by our Block 9 discovery. Not only is there a great need for power in Kenya, there is also the potential for downdip oil and for additional prospects on trend. We have a number of leads along this basin bounding fault and additional seismic data is being considered. We continue to have a very active exploration and appraisal program in both Kenya and Ethiopia and have made significant progress in moving the South Turkana pipeline and development program forward in cooperation with the Kenyan government."
The Company is also pleased to update additional exploration and appraisal activities in Kenya and Ethiopia.
In Kenya, the Company has 4 additional rigs active in the South Turkana Basin where oil discoveries have previously been announced at Ngamia, Twiga, Agete, Amosing, Ekales, Etuko and Ewoi.
The PR Marriott 46 rig has recently completed the Ngamia-2 well which was drilled 1.7 km from the Ngamia-1 discovery well to test the northwest flank of the prospect. The well encountered up to 39 meters of net oil pay and 11 meters of net gas pay and appears to have identified a new fault block trap north of the main Ngamia accumulation. The reservoirs were high quality with more than 200 meters of net reservoir sands with good permeability inferred from MDT sampling. The well has been suspended for testing and the rig will continue to drill up to 4 additional appraisal wells in the Ngamia field area for an extended well test program. A 3D seismic program is currently being concluded over the field area which should allow for detailed mapping of the fault trends.
The SMP-5 rig has completed testing operations on the Agete-1 well where it confirmed the Auwerwer pay previously released, the well flow rate was tested at 500 barrels of oil per day. This rig is now currently on location at the Ewoi-1 discovery and is preparing to test, after which it will continue to be used to test discovery and appraisal wells in this basin.
The Weatherford 804 rig is currently drilling the Agete-2 downdip appraisal well and will then move to drill the Etom prospect located 7 kilometers north of the Agete discovery along the basin bounding 'string of pearls' trend.
The Sakson PR-5 rig is drilling ahead on the Amosing-2 downdip appraisal well, with a planned sidetrack, and will then move to drill the Kodos and Epir (formerly Aze) prospects, which will be the first exploratory wells to test the Kerio Basin, located immediately adjacent to the prolific S. Lokichar basin.
Finally, the Exalo 205 rig is drilling ahead on the Gardim prospect, located in the Chew Bahir basin in the South Omo block in Ethiopia. The partnership is in discussions on the next prospect to be considered for drilling in this block.
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You aren't a Kenyan! and your views are moronic!
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I told you earlier, you are NOT A KENYAN, moron!......your grammar is pathetic!.....your sentence construction and slang isn't Kenyan either, GTFOH!
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Geza, don't let your hate or fear of a country cloud your judgment of presented facts. As Chan said, actions based on rage will make a fool of you soon enough.
Bongo-live, Add to that the fact that in March this year, tullow oil in collaboration with Africa Oil and AP Moller-Maersk found a 1 billion barrel find in Cheptuket basin, south of Lokichar
A new oil discovery in Kenya is “very encouraging indeed” for its export ambitions
Then on May, Africa Oil added a 150 million barrels find in their part of Lokichar basin. This made the reserves under Africa Oil alone at 766 million barrels!
Kenya may have a lot more oil than it previously thought
The updated figure follows the March discovery of “an active petroleum system with significant oil generation” in Kerio Valley, also in northern Kenya, by British energy group Tullow Oil. Tullow and Africa Oil have been exploring the basin, believed to have as much as 1 billion barrels of oil, that could make Kenya an oil exporter in the future.
This is such a good time to be an East African, a region with rapidly expanding economies with little or no mineral help, with countries working hard to increase intra-regional trade hence reduce exposure to world markets shocks. The fossil fuels finds all over the region could never have come at a better time.
Bongo-live, Add to that the fact that in March this year, tullow oil in collaboration with Africa Oil and AP Moller-Maersk found a 1 billion barrel find in Cheptuket basin, south of Lokichar
A new oil discovery in Kenya is “very encouraging indeed” for its export ambitions
Then on May, Africa Oil added a 150 million barrels find in their part of Lokichar basin. This made the reserves under Africa Oil alone at 766 million barrels!
Kenya may have a lot more oil than it previously thought
The updated figure follows the March discovery of “an active petroleum system with significant oil generation” in Kerio Valley, also in northern Kenya, by British energy group Tullow Oil. Tullow and Africa Oil have been exploring the basin, believed to have as much as 1 billion barrels of oil, that could make Kenya an oil exporter in the future.
This is such a good time to be an East African, a region with rapidly expanding economies with little or no mineral help, with countries working hard to increase intra-regional trade hence reduce exposure to world markets shocks. The fossil fuels finds all over the region could never have come at a better time.
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Teh team povu sie tunangoja tu baadae mnaanza kuleta ngonjera zingine
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Mabingwa wa speculation