East Africa: East African states plan single consultant for oil pipeline: official

Jun 4, 2014 | George Obulutsa, Reuters
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan are expected to invite bids this month for a single consultant to oversee the building of an oil pipeline to transport crude to the Kenyan coast, a senior Kenyan energy official said on Wednesday.

Uganda and Kenya have discovered commercial quantities of oil and aim to start production in the next three years or so.

Their neighbour, South Sudan, is a producer that now relies on a pipeline through Sudan but ties between those two states have been strained since they split from each other in 2011.