80pc of Kenya's crude oil in Turkana cannot be tapped, Tullow says

Kenya has already tested the international market with shipments of crude. Tullow has yet to develop the field for commercial production more than nine years after it first struck oil in Turkana, attributing the delay to factors such as unfavourable global oil prices since 2014, approval delays for land and water rights, a tax dispute and Covid ...

Troubled waters: responding to climate change in Turkana

It is a scorching hot morning in Turkana County, northern Kenya. The ground is dry and sandy, punctuated with small gorse bushes and occasional trees. Tall, thin termite nests point like fingers at the cloudless sky. In some places, dust swirls in miniature whirlwinds. Yellow locusts swarm around the remaining vegetation, stragglers …

New Oil Developments in a Remote Area: Environmental …

Turkana County, Continuity, and Change. Turkana County (see Figure 1) is located in the remote arid reaches of north-western Kenya, sparsely inhabited by about 1.5 million people of whom the. Figure 1. Map of Turkana County. majority are pastoralists of the Turkana ethnic group (Turkana County Government, 2013).

Oil extraction and the changing dynamics of pastoral …

by using a survey experiment conducted in Turkana County, Kenya, on a sample of respondents. The study finds that overall, respondents' perceived risks of pastoral conflicts decrease when they are primed about the consequences of oil extraction leading to fundamental changes in pastoral livelihoods, such as an

Kenya's Turkana oil and gas field shows the challenges of …

Although Kenya's 2018 Local Content Bill has been promulgated, serious challenges exist around its implementation in the Turkana oil and gas fields, the country's primary site of extraction, estimated to hold up to 560 million barrels of oil.Firstly, there is considerable mistrust between the national government and the Turkana county …

Oil Extraction and Public Attitudes: A Conjoint Experiment in Turkana …

This study examines the impacts of economic, social and environmental consequences of oil extraction on public opinion in an economically and politically marginalised community in northern Kenya. We conduct a conjoint experiment on a sample of 801 respondents in urban and semi-urban locations in Turkana county and find that our respondents ...

Oil extraction and public attitudes: A conjoint experiment in Turkana …

DOI: 10.1016/J.EXIS.2021.100956 Corpus ID: 237661365; Oil extraction and public attitudes: A conjoint experiment in Turkana, Kenya @article{Kim2021OilEA, title={Oil extraction and public attitudes: A conjoint experiment in Turkana, Kenya}, author={Hye‐Sung Kim and Kennedy Mkutu}, journal={The Extractive Industries and …

80pc of Kenya's crude oil in Turkana cannot be tapped, …

More than 80 percent of Kenya's estimated 2.85 billion barrels oil reservoir remains inaccessible for commercial exploitation due to limitations in extraction …

proposal on environmental impact of oil exploration in Turkana kenya

In November 2011, Tullow Oil PLC, an Irish company prospecting for oil and gas in North-Western Kenya announced that it had struck oil and gas reserves in Turkana County. Kenya is expected to begin oil production in 2017 with an estimated production of over 10,000 barrels per day (bpd).

Oil extraction and public attitudes: A conjoint experiment in …

Recent discoveries of oil and gas in eastern Africa often happen in marginalized and underdeveloped areas, such as Turkana, Kenya, an arid county …

Conservancies, Conflict and Dispossession: The Winners …

11 This work is the result of several years of research in Turkana, Kenya from 2012 to 2017. Methods include observation, in-depth interviews, focused group discussions and ongoing phone communication with administrators, civil society, and members of the Turkana pastoral communities. 12 David Harvey, The New Imperialism. (Oxford: Oxford ...

The Turkana Community of Kenya — Google Arts & Culture

The family was the basic social unit of the Turkana community. A group of families made up the clan. Traditionally the Turkana had a very unique alternating division, where the father was in the ngersai (leopard) division of the clan, the son would belong to the ngimor (stone) division, and the son's children would belong to the leopard division.

Oil extraction and the changing dynamics of pastoral …

To examine whether and how oil extraction affects the dynamics of pastoral conflicts, this study has conducted a survey experiment in Turkana County in north-western Kenya, one of the most economically and politically marginalised counties where the main industry has been pastoralism (Mkutu & Mdee Reference Mkutu and Mdee 2020). The …

Tullow Oil to reopen operations in Turkana, begin exporting …

The Multi-National Oil and Gas exploration company located in Turkana county, which ventured into Oil exploration in Kenya in 2012, says the Commercial …

Oil and emerging conflict dynamics in the Ateker cluster: the …

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Oil and emerging conflict dynamics in the Ateker cluster: the case of Turkana, Kenya" by K. M. Agade

Oil extraction and public attitudes: A conjoint experiment in Turkana …

This study examines the impacts of economic, social and environmental consequences of oil extraction on public opinion in an economically and politically marginalised community in northern Kenya. We conduct a conjoint experiment on a sample of 801

Oil extraction and public attitudes: A conjoint experiment in …

This study examines the impacts of economic, social and environmental consequences of oil extraction on public opinion in an economically and politically …

Kenya: The Landscape of Turkana County | Pulitzer Center

Kenya, 2014. Turkana County is dry. Hues of yellows and browns paint the landscape, creating a sense of emptiness. But Turkana County, the planet's oldest landscape known to have been inhabited by modern humans, is anything but empty. Tullow Oil PLC, a British-owned oil exploration company, has discovered an estimated 250 …

Oil discovery in Turkana County, Kenya: A source of …

Turkana County is located in the Turkana Basin at the northern end of Kenya ' s portion of the Great Rift V alley of East Africa which runs north to south through Kenya (National Geographic, 1996 ).

First report on mycetoma in Turkana County—North-western Kenya

Author summary In this paper we describe the medical situation of people affected by mycetoma in Turkana County, (north-west Kenya). This is a neglected disease, suffered by the poorest people in the world due to lack of education and access to health services. In Turkana there is a high incidence of this disease, especially among young …

Overview of Kenya's Extractive Sector

The Kenya Vision 2030 is the country's development blueprint that covers the period from 2008 to 2030.33 The Vision 2030 aims to transform Kenya into an industrialising, middle-income country that provides a high quality life to all its citizens by the year 2030 based on the following three pillars: The Economic Pillar: Aims to improve the ...

Breaking the cycle of Turkana's drought crisis

Turkana is among 23 counties, half of Kenya, that have been ravaged by a devastating drought. 2.6 million people now need life-saving aid, including clean safe water. Water sources have been ...

New Oil Developments in a Remote Area: Environmental …

This study examines how oil extraction may influence pastoral conflicts by using a survey experiment conducted in Turkana County, Kenya, on a sample of 801 respondents.

Enclave oil development and the rearticulation of citizenship …

The analysis in this paper is situated in the current context of Turkana, Kenya, a county located in the arid and semi-arid region of northwestern Kenya. The name of the county, 'Turkana', is borrowed from the name of the Turkana people, a Niolitic group that has called this region of Kenya home for centuries. Turkana encompasses 68,680 …

Enclaved or enmeshed? Local governance of oil finds in …

Taking the example of oil finds in Turkana County located in the reaches of Kenya's northwest, this article develops a bottom-up view of governance of oil …

Full article: A local to global perspective on oil and wind

Footnote 127 Overall, the research findings suggest that the oil and wind extractive processes have an aggravating effect on existing violent conflicts between communities (e.g. between Turkana and Pokot) and a potential to create new, so far non-violent conflicts, within communities of the same ethnicity (e.g. between Turkana South …

Oil discoveries in Turkana six years ago haven't delivered benefits …

Turkana is a vast dry, remote county, in northwest Kenya, home to around 1.5 million nomadic livestock herders. The discovery of commercially viable oil deposits six years ago brought with it ...

Oil extraction and the changing dynamics of pastoral …

In Turkana County, the primary industry has traditionally been pastoral- ism, and pastoral conflicts with other pastoralist ethnic communities involving cattle and livestock raiding across sub ...

The Viability of Turkana Oil

At present, Kenya's oil extraction efforts are centered around oil wells located in Lokichar, Turkana county. We will refer to this oil as Turkana crude. …