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Tullow Oil picks Australia's Worley Parsons for Kenya contract

Published 29/05/2018, 11:52 pm
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NAIROBI, May 29 (Reuters) - Tullow Oil TLW.L has awarded an engineering design contract for oil production in its northern Kenyan blocs to Australia's Worley Parsons WOR.AX , a Kenyan petroleum ministry official told Reuters on Tuesday.

Kenya this month moved a step closer to full production at the blocs when the local government and the national government agreed on revenue sharing. The blocs, Kenya's only source of oil so far, are estimated to contain 750 million barrels. Kamau, principal secretary in the ministry of petroleum and mining, did not provide more details on the engineering design contract.

Tullow and its partner Africa Oil AOI.TO discovered commercial reserves in the Lokichar basin in 2012. French oil producer Total TOTF.PA has since taken a 25 percent stake.

Tullow, which operates the blocs, and Worley Parsons, were not immediately available for comment.

On Sunday, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to wave off a convoy of trucks carrying crude oil, marking the start of small scale exports meant to help the firms carry out technical studies like oil well flow rates ahead of full production in 2021/22.

The agreement on revenue sharing will pave the way for the passage of a much delayed law on petroleum production, allowing Tullow to start shipping oil, which has been held in storage tanks for a year as it waited for the law.

The government and the firms involved in the blocs earlier this month also awarded an engineering design contract for a new pipeline.

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