Kenya set to create its first crop of oil barons

Turkana’s oilfields are set to turn hundreds of Kenyans and foreign experts into millionaires even before commercial production of the black gold commences in three years’ time.

The planned transportation of 2,000 barrels of oil per day from the Turkana oil fields to the port of Mombasa for export using flatbed trucks mounted with oil tanks is seen as opening the very first window for making big money for suppliers in a long value chain that includes mining, storage, transport and security.