British exploration firm Tullow Oil has discovered oil and natural gas deposits in Turkana even as its Canadian partner Africa Oil also announced that it had discovered gas at another site in northern Kenya.
Tullow has discovered 39 metres of net oil and 11 metres of net gas pay at Ngamia-2 well which is 1.7 kilometres away from the Ngamia-1, the site of the country’s maiden find in early 2012.
Africa Oil, on the other hand, has discovered gas deposits in a 1,000 metre range at the Sala-1 site, adding that it will commence tests to ascertain the exact deposit amount and its viability.
The two discoveries, which come just a week after Australia’s Pan continental Oil and Gas NL discovered oil in the Lamu Basin, collectively inch Kenya close to commercial production of both oil and gas.
AUTHOR: WEMA TOYWA