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Last updated: 27 Mar 2013

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Key activities Licences Acreage (sq km) Producing fields
E 1 29,465

Following Tullow’s exploration success to date in Uganda’s Lake Albert Rift Basin, the company has extended its exploration acreage into the prospective East African Rift Basins of Kenya and Ethiopia.

In 2010, Tullow signed an agreement with Africa Oil to gain a 50% operated interest in the South Omo Block in Ethiopia. This has been complemented by the 50% operated interests in six adjacent Kenyan licences. The combined acreage covers the Turkana Rift Basin which is similar in geology to the Lake Albert Rift Basin and is also a south-east extension of the geologically older Sudan rift basins trend. The first well in the licence commenced in December 2012 at Sabisa-1.

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