Kenya delays signing LNG deal with Qatar on domestic gas discovery
Nairobi (Platts)--16Feb2015
Kenya is delaying signing an agreement on importing LNG from Qatar due to the discovery of 1.8 Tcf of gas in onshore block 9.
Energy Cabinet Secretary Davis Chirchir told Platts by telephone Monday that the signing of a deal for Qatar to supply 1 million mt of LNG a year to fire a planned 700-MW power plant in Mombasa was being delayed.
He said the government was looking at ways of optimizing the use of the gas found in the middle of last year by Africa Oil Corp. at the Sala-1 well in block 9 in northeastern Kenya before making a commitment to import LNG from Qatar.
