Dangote Oil Project and Pipeline Plans

Regarding the Dangote project issue there.

Ah, people have questions in their minds, asking perhaps Mr.

Dangote alone, or that plant, will be producing more than

tons, uh.

Uh, seven hundred thousand perhaps this crude oil will

come from where? Because we know that East African countries

do not have

the capacity to produce crude oil, uh,

in this quantity. And considering that we want to

continue expanding so that

we can meet our oil needs.

Perhaps where will we get this oil, and what is Kenya's position?

We know we have oil in Turkana, where is it?

Uh.

First, we have agreed, uh,

Dangote,

that he will help us, as Kenya,

build a channel, or pipeline,

that will connect Lamu

to Turkana there,

so that we can bring that oil, even though it is only a small amount,

and bring it to Lamu.

So we have agreed with him, and he has agreed to invest

in a pipeline

from Lamu

to Turkana.

But I promised you Kenyans, I told you

the oil in Turkana

we will extract it

before December this year.

It will have started, we will have begun transporting it from there

before then.

Before then,

aren't you people always keeping track of dates?

That's what you keep bothering me about.

So,

by God's will, in December this year,

the Turkana oil that has been stuck for I don't know how many years

we will begin extracting it there.

And I have spoken to Mr. Dangote that

as he continues building Lamu,

we should also put in a pipeline from here.

We are talking to the neighboring country of Sudan

and they were here yesterday.

And just to answer your question,

regarding what you mentioned, Samia Suluhu, I have spoken to her.

She sent her minister here.

Rwanda has sent its minister here. Burundi was here.

Rwanda and Uganda were here.

If there were hostility, all these countries would not be here.

So, just to answer your question.

But, to answer his question.

So, number one, Lake Turkana, I have asked you, I have answered you that

we have already agreed with the investor that

he will invest

in laying a pipeline to ensure that oil from

Turkana reaches Lamu. But I have added something

you did not ask, that this year

we will also begin extracting oil from Turkana.

Where will we get this

crude oil?

It will come from everywhere.

The same way, even Dangote, which he

operates there

in Lekki, Lagos,

gets crude everywhere in the world.

Wherever you get crude, you take it to the refinery...

That's where you come to refine it. That same Dangote brings in

oil from all over the world.

He refines it there at Lekki and

you heard him say himself that 20 percent of

Europe's jet fuel comes from

Nigeria. So even here in Kenya, some of

the oil refined here in Kenya will be

Kenyan jet fuel. Since we do not have many

planes, perhaps it will be sold in the U.S. Others

will be sold in other parts of the world, depending on

the market that is available.

So that's how it's going to be. That is how all refineries operate.

You know, a refinery cannot use just one type

of oil or crude oil, that is what I have been told.

I have been told that you need different types of

crude oil in order to refine the oil.

So even if we had our own

Ours alone cannot produce oil.

It must be mixed with others. So even if we extract ours from Lake

Turkana, another will still be needed from other places

so that the oil can be properly refined so it can become

oil products

oil products