HIGHLIGHTS

• Turkana is Kenya’s first oilfield.
• Discovered in 2012 by the Anglo-Irish firm Tullow, estimated oil in place has reached over three billion barrels and counting.
• The discovery of oil in Turkana was a major breakthrough in oil exploration and has brought a flurry of issues to a part of Kenya that has been forgotten from the first time the white man set foot in East Africa. Oil appears to have raised the profile of Turkana in Kenya and globally.
• The oil wells include; Ngamia-1 well which was the very first oil discovery, this has since been followed by further exploration success in the South Lokichar Basin at the Amosing, Twiga, Etuko, Ekales-1, Agete, Ewoi, Ekunyuk, Etom, Erut and Emekuya oil accumulations.
• Along side this discovery is the pastoral community who for centuries have hold on to their culture, the Turkan people and their way of life in this semidesert area they call home is very unique.
• The place is enriched and spiced up with lake Turkan which is the largest desert lake in Africa and its parks are constituted of Sibiloi National Park, the South Island and the Central Island National Parks.