Oil exploration company Tullow Oil Plc discovered crude minerals along the Kenyan and Ethiopian borders in the Tertiary rift.

Tullow was under a fair amount of pressure to discover more oil after a disappointing trading performance in January and a failure to find oil off the coast of French Guiana last year.

Tullow’s partners include Marathon Oil and Africa Oil Corp, and this discovery is part of a vast project that covers Ethiopia and Kenya.

There could be as much as 23 billion barrels of oil concentrated underneath two basins, extending from southern Ethiopia to southwestern Kenya. This does not include two other unexplored basins.

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