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Tullow still pursuing strategic partner, says oil plan on course

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The Cheptuket Wellpad Project site in Chepsigot, Elgeyo Marakwet county. Tullow Oil announced that they had discovered oil in the Kerio Valley Basin. [File, Standard]

Tullow Oil is yet to make much headway in its search for a strategic partner, which remains one of the key aspects needed to move Kenya's oil project forward.

This is even as the firm said it is committed to seeing the project through to its commercial phase, which would see Kenya start production and export of oil from Lokichar in Turkana county. The project has faced major delays and is now expected to start oil production in 2028.

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