Kenya will extend the metre gauge railway (MGR) to South Lokichar in a project projected to cost Sh220 billion, marking a change from the earlier plan to build a pipeline to ferry crude oil from Turkana.
Documents tabled in Parliament show that 640 kilometres of MGR will be constructed from Rongai in Nakuru to South Lokichar in Turkana County by December 2031 to ease the evacuation of the crude oil from January 2032, when daily crude oil production will more than double to 50,000 stock barrels per day(stb/d).
