Turkana oil find a blessing that calls for restrained celebration

After many past disappointments, it can now be said that Kenya has commercial quantities of oil, and this is great news for this nation; investors and the people of Turkana County.

Optimism was always there that Turkana was a good bet, based mainly by the geological similarity between the Turkana Rift and the Lake Albert Rift in Uganda where Tullow is now developing oil fields while prospecting for more oil. Tullow has had similar successes in Ghana