Kenya Oil Production on Course After Agreement on Revenue Share

Kenya will start the small scale export of crude oil from its fields in the far northern county of Turkana in June after an agreement on how to share the revenue, averting delays, the presidency said on May 19.

Tullow Oil and its partner Africa Oil discovered commercial reserves in the Lokichar basin in 2012. Total has since taken a 25% stake.

A row had broken out after President Uhuru Kenyatta cut the share of the Turkana county government to 15% and that of the local community to 5%, leaving the rest to the national government.