Update on Oil and Gas Exploration Activities in Kenya
Kenya has a total of 63 exploration blocks demarcated across its four (4) sedimentary basins; Tertiary Rift Basin, Anza Basin, Mandera Basin, Lamu (Onshore & Offshore) Basin. Currently, there are 19 oil and gas companies operating in Kenya as sho
Kenya has a total of 63 exploration blocks demarcated across its four (4) sedimentary basins; Tertiary Rift Basin, Anza Basin, Mandera Basin, Lamu (Onshore & Offshore) Basin. Currently, there are 19 oil and gas companies operating in Kenya as shown in the table below:
Operator Block(s)
1. A-Z Petroleum L1A & L3
2. Africa Oil Corporation 9* (pending relinquishment)
3. Anadarko L11A, L11B & L12
4. CEPSA 11A
5. Delonex Energy 12A
6. ENI L21, L23 & L24
7. FAR Ltd L6 & L9
8. Imara Energy L2
9. Lamu Oil & Gas Ltd L14
10. Lion Petroleum 2B
11. Milio E&P L20
12. National Oil Corporation of Kenya 14T
13. Octant Energy 1, L17 & L18
14. Rift Energy L19
15. Shell L10A & L10B
16. Simba Essel Energy 2A
17. Total L22
18. Tullow Oil 10BA, 10BB, 12B & 13T
19. Zarara Oil & Gas L4 & L13
Table 1: Oil and Gas Companies operating in Kenya
The map below illustrates the International Oil and Gas Companies operating in Kenya as well as their respective Blocks:
Tullow Oil, Blocks 10BB & 13T
Blocks 10BB & 13T, located in Turkana County, are operated by Tullow Oil with a 50% ownership interest. Other Joint Venture Partners include Africa Oil Corporation and Total both having a 25% working interest each. Activities at the oil fields in the two Blocks, dubbed the South Lokichar Basin Project, located in Turkana County are now at the pre-development phase.
Tullow Oil anticipates spending $80 million in pre-development phase and $90 million in exploration and appraisal in Kenya, totalling to about $170 million (approx. KES 17 billion shillings).
Tullow Oil has reported a reduction of the oil resources to 560 million barrels in place (2C contingent resources), a reduction from the previously announced 766 million barrels.
The Joint Venture Partners have proposed for Phased Development (as captured in the Map below) of the South Lokichar Basin project, with the initial development phase planned to commence at the Amosing and Ngamia fields. This will involve;
An initial 210 wells through 18 well pads at Ngamia and 70 wells through 7 well pads at Amosing,
A planned 60,000 to 80,000 barrels of oil per day (bopd) Central Processing Facility (CPF), and
A crude oil export pipeline from Lokichar to Lamu.
Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED)and Environmental and Social Impact Assessments (ESIA) activities for the above developments are currently ongoing, with the Joint Venture Partners expected to make a Final Investment Decision by end of 2019, with First-Oil targeted for 2021/22. Contracts for FEED of the upstream project and the pipeline have already been awarded to WorleyParsons and Wood PLCrespectively.
Zarara Oil and Gas Ltd, Block L4
Drilling of natural gas at the Pate-2 well, located at Lamu County’s Pate Island, commenced on 26th April 2018. The well was initially drilled to a top-hole drilling depth of 300 metres by a small powered drilling rig (pictured as Rig 1) as the company waited for the arrival of the Sakson rig (pictured as Rig 2) in mid-July 2018 that continued drilling of the well to a targeted total depth of 4,500 metres.
The company also plans to drill a second well, Pate-3, which will be dependent on the success of Pate-2.
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Octant Energy, acquired Blocks 1, L17 & L18 from Afren’s subsidiary East Africa Exploration (EAX) Limited in 2015. Octant plans to carry on with exploration activities in its three blocks, with plans to concentrate on the drillable prospects already identified in the Blocks in a program that will see the acquisition of additional 2D seismic data and the possible drilling of four exploration wells.
The company plans to acquire 2D seismic over the El Wak prospect, Mandera Basin, in Block 1. Oil seeps have in the past been identified in the Block, with the most notable one being the Tarbaj oil seep, confirming the presence of an active hydrocarbon system.
Update on Oil and Gas Exploration Activities in Kenya
Kenya has a total of 63 exploration blocks demarcated across its four (4) sedimentary basins; Tertiary Rift Basin, Anza Basin, Mandera Basin, Lamu (Onshore & Offshore) Basin. Currently, there are 19 oil and gas companies operating in Kenya as sho