The future of Kenya’s Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) has been left in doubt after Tullow Oil threatened to shut down its operations in the Lokichar oil wells in Turkana County, if the stalemate that has crippled production and transportation is not resolved in the next two weeks.
Disputes on politics, security and resource-sharing between the community and the central government have disrupted the shipment of crude from Lokichar in northwestern Kenya to the refinery in Mombasa County on the Coast for more than three weeks after local leaders, Tullow Oil and officials from the central government failed to reach a deal to unlock the impasse.
