How TotalEnergies dodged a bullet in Kenyan oil search

TotalEnergies petrol station in Hurlingham, Nairobi. 

Photo credit: File | Evans Habil | Nation Media Group

French oil company TotalEnergies dodged a bullet in its quest to find commercially viable oil deposits in Kenya after three blocks that it sold to QatarEnergy returned nil results for the black gold.

The firm has disclosed the sale of its interest in the Lamu Basin blocks to the Qatari firm in September 2021, barely six months before the wells were declared dry, saving it billions of shillings in exploration costs.

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