[8] Originally Kenya partnered with Uganda to export that oil through a joint pipeline to Port Lamu on the Indian Ocean coast.
The joint venture agreement (JDA) will be followed by studies on the pipeline's technical requirements as well as its financing and ownership structure.
[14] In January 2018, TotalEnergies, announced its commitment to invest and become a shareholder in this pipeline, as well as in new oilfields in the Turkana exploration region.
This represented a "change of mind" by the French oil conglomerate, which in 2016, strongly recommended against development of a pipeline along this route.
[16] In April 2018, the government of Kenya selected Wood Group Plc, a multinational energy services company based in Aberdeen, Scotland, to carry out the FEED engineering for the pipeline.