Kenya's hopes of benefiting from the country's oil potential has been dealt a subtle blow, following a fresh delay in the Turkana oil venture.
UK-based Tullow Oil and its local partner, Gulf Energy Ltd have been granted an additional six months to submit the Field Development Plan (FDP), which is required to move the project into the production phase.
The FDP outlines how oil will be extracted, transported and marketed from Turkana's oil-rich Lokichar Basin.
Without the plan, the government will be unable to issue production licences, meaning the companies involved will be unable to launch a full-scale oil extraction operation.
