Tullow Oil makes fifth consecutive find in Kenya since drilling began

Tullow Oil has made its fifth consecutive oil discovery since beginning drilling operations in Kenya last year.

Tullow Oil makes fifth consecutive find in Kenya since drilling began

The eastern African country is ranked as one of the continent’s high potential oil and gas regions and was mentioned by Tullow , last week as one of the territories from where it hopes to report progress during the first half of 2014.

Yesterday’s update said that drilling at the Irish-founded and London-based exploration company’s Agete-1 ‘wildcat’ well in the north of Kenya discovered and sampled moveable oil with an estimated 100 metres of net oil pay in good quality sandstone reservoirs.

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