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LONDON – Tullow Oil stopped working in its Kenyan oilfields and stopped trucking operations after protests by the local community disrupted a transportation project, its chief executive said Wednesday. Project of 2.9 billion dollars (3.8 trillion rupees) in Kenya by 2021, which will open the country 's oil industry to exports.
But demonstrations and security problems have ended a pilot project that is currently delivering 600 barrels of oil a day to Kenyan media said the protests should require the deployment of more forces in the region, which has long suffered from banditry and cattle theft. Turkana, where the oil blocks are located, is also near South Sudan, a nation torn apart by years of conflict.
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" What you saw locally is the Local people, the community … use the trucking operation as a lever to demonstrate to the national government that the security situation on the ground had to improve. "Tullow's general manager, Paul McDade, said to Reuters: "We are expecting to work there, to put the land back into operation and to move the trucks in the near future … back … we have a safer environment."
Tullow is aiming at a production in Kenya At least 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day after the first oil in 2021/22.
The company plans to reduce its stake in the project to about 30 percent by 50 percent before the final investment decision, a spokesman said.
The other partners of the project are Total and Africa Oil.
Reuters
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