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Africa Oil Corp Preparing Water Injection Testing in Kenya

Africa Oil Corp. has provided the following update on operations in East Africa.
Progress is being made on the decision regarding the route of the export pipeline with the Technical Consultant having submitted its final feasibility report to the Governments of Uganda and Kenya. It is expected that the Governments will shortly agree on the preferred routing which will enable the next phase of work on the pipeline to progress.
Kenya operations have been focused on the South Lokichar Blocks 10BB and 13T where appraisal drilling and Extended Well Tests (EWT) are continuing.
In May, the Amosing EWT commenced and five reservoir zones in the field were tested across two wells, being separately produced in one well while pressure responses were measured in the other well. Production from all five…
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