Kenya 2022 oil plan back on track as UK firm takes up pipeline design

An oil pipeline. Kenya has picked Britain's Wood Group for oil pipeline design to inform the specifications of the pipeline as well as the actual cost. FOTOSEARCH

Kenya has picked Wood Group Plc, a British company, to design its oil pipeline to transport crude from fields in Lokichar, Turkana County in the north to the port of Lamu on the Coast.

The announcement last week puts the oil export plan back on track towards commercial production in 2021/22.