Kenya Mulls $1.7 Billion Rail Extension to Ex-Tullow Oil Fields

Kenya is weighing plans to extend a colonial-era rail line to its north-western oil fields to ferry crude to an Indian Ocean port by 2030, offering an alternative to a previously proposed pipeline for exports.

That will involve constructing about 640 kilometers (400 miles) of meter gauge railway from the Rift Valley city of Nakuru to South Lokichar at a cost of 220 billion shillings ($1.7 billion), according to a parliamentary report approving a field development plan by Gulf Energy Ltd.