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East Africa's pipeline corridor - connecting the rift valleys
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Report summary
Kenya's onshore Gregory Rift Basin has established itself as a new hydrocarbon province after recent exploration activity yielded 430 million barrels of recoverable oil. Our yet-to-find (YTF) estimate of over 3.6 billion barrels suggests the discovered volumes will increase. But developing these resources will not be easy - they are situated over 800 kilometres from the coast, with very little infrastructure nearby. Neighbouring landlocked Uganda has similar challenges, its 1.24 billion...
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Kenya and Uganda - exploration success in remote locations
- An expensive and complex pipeline
- Pipeline throughputs and tariffs
- It unlocks huge value for the upstream partners and both countries
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Big challenges for a complex long pipeline
- Inhospitable terrain to transit crude
- Environmentally and socially sensitive areas en route
- Road network in need of upgrading and building
- Right of Way access will need to be negotiated
- Sabotage and terrorist prevention will be a priority
- Heating the pipeline will be expensive
- Politics and pipeline tariff negotiations could still slow progress
- Other pipeline options have been considered but not progressed
- Conclusion
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Appendix
- Pipeline assumptions
- Upstream valuation
Tables and charts
This report includes 7 images and tables including:
- Most likely export route for Uganda and Kenya
- Pipeline throughputs
- Assumed pipeline tariff structure
- Pipeline tariffs
- Kenyan model field valuations
- Pipeline tariffs
- Upstream assumptions
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