Tullow Oil’s latest African oil find could lead to the Irish-founded explorer embarking on a round of so-called ‘unconventional’ exploration, or ‘fracking’, in Kenya.

Tullow Oil has said its onshore assets in northern Kenya have the potential to become a significant new hydrocarbon province after making two sizeable additional oil discoveries.

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

Tullow Oil has abandoned two wells in two continents after finding no hydrocarbons at either.

Tullow Oil slumped to a four-month low in London trading yesterday after failing to make a commercial find at the Zaedyus-2 well off French Guiana in South America.

Kenya has moved a step closer to being the next big geographical base for Tullow Oil, after the Irish-founded exploration company made a further significant oil find at one of its assets there.

Tullow Oil has added Greenland to its increasingly diversified international presence — takinga 40% stake in a licence located in Baffin Bay.

Irish oil exploration company Tullow Oil has discovered the first natural gas find off Kenya, adding to Tullow’s recent first inland oil discovery in March.

Tullow Oil has announced that it has found gas reserves off the coast of Kenya.

Increased production rates and rising oil and gas prices boosted revenues and profits — the latter by as much as 147% — to record levels at Limerick-headquartered exploration company, Circle Oil last year.

Tullow Oil, the Irish explorer with the most licenses in Africa, climbed the most in six weeks in London trading after raising its estimate of crude at Kenya’s first oil find.

Tullow Oil has formally concluded its long-awaited $2.9 billion (€2.19bn) sale of certain Ugandan assets to its two developmental partners, China’s CNOOC and French company, Total.

TULLOW Oil Plc’s share estimate was raised 25% by Sanford C Bernstein & Co, as the explorer found the first oil in French Guiana, a new regional frontier.

TULLOW Oil shares soared almost 20% after its French Guiana exploration resulted in an offshore oil discovery, raising the prospect of the opening of a major offshore oil-producing operation in South America.

Tullow Oil has announced an oil discovery from an exploration well off the coast of French Guiana.

A FURTHER oil find in the area has convinced Tullow Oil that its Owo discovery, off the coast of Ghana, has the potential to be another major oil field for the company.

Tullow Oil today announced the discovery of a "major light oil field" in one of its offshore Ghana licences.

TULLOW OIL, the Irish-founded oil and gas exploration company, has kept up its steady stream of positive news ahead of its interim results next month, by announcing a further significant oil find in one of its African bases.

Irish exploration company Tullow says it has discovered a major new oil field off the coast of Ghana in West Africa.

Tullow Oil plc has announced that it has agreed a new deepwater exploration licence with Suriname's state oil company Staatsolie for an area off the coast of the South American country

PROVIDENCE Resources said seismic testing results at one of its British-based assets show it could hold significantly more oil than estimated.

Tullow Oil has today confirmed further reserves in their Kasamene block in Uganda and have also the discovered oil in the adjacent Wahrindi block following a drilling campaign in the Lake Albert Region of the country.

TULLOW Oil has made a second potentially large-scale oil and gas discovery in Ghana, which could come close to rivalling its nearby Jubilee field, in terms of production levels.

A new oil find in Uganda by Tullow Oil has "the potential to be the largest oil field in the basin to date", according to the company.

Tullow Oil says it is progressing its drilling and exploration plans in Uganda, after the discovery of oil at the Ngara-1 exploration well in the Butiaba region.

Tullow Oil has announced that it has struck oil in two separate drillings in the Butiaba region of Uganda.

TULLOW Oil has indicated that there is still further potential for fresh oil discoveries at its oil well at its Deepwater Tano licence off the coast of Ghana.

Tullow Oil today announced a "significant" new oil find off the Ghana coast as well as the securing of $2bn (€1.58bn) of funding for future developments.

PAYMENTS to directors of Tullow Oil increased by nearly 32% to £5 million (€6.2m) last year.

EXPLORATION company Tullow Oil has announced the retirement of its exploration director, Adrian Nel. Mr Nel will retire at the end of May.

Tullow Oil has announced that Adrian Nel will retire as exploration director and from the board at the end of the company’s AGM on May 31.