{"id":30,"date":"2017-10-11T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T09:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iub.xkn.mybluehost.me\/website_11ab3dee\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2025-07-09T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T08:32:07","slug":"opportunities-for-oil-exploration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/opportunities-for-oil-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities for Oil Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Opportunities for Oil and Gas Exploration in Kenya<\/h2>\n<h3>The Basins<\/h3>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s Petroleum potential is best depicted by the four large sized sedimentary basins that straddle the Country<\/p>\n<p>(sedimentary basins &amp; exploration blocks map). These are Lamu, Anza, Mandera, and Tertiary Rift basins. The sedimentary<\/p>\n<p>basins are divided into exploration blocks as shown below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petroleum\u00a0Exploration Block Map of Kenya<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iub.xkn.mybluehost.me\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FOR-THE-WEBSITE-scaled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4667 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/iub.xkn.mybluehost.me\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FOR-THE-WEBSITE-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1811\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FOR-THE-WEBSITE-scaled.jpg 1811w, https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FOR-THE-WEBSITE-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FOR-THE-WEBSITE-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FOR-THE-WEBSITE-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FOR-THE-WEBSITE-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/FOR-THE-WEBSITE-1449x2048.jpg 1449w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1811px) 100vw, 1811px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Exploration Block Map of Kenya: Government of Kenya, Revised Edition 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>To <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Download the PDF document of Petroleum Exploration Block Co-ordinate Points Map click the link below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pdf\/coordinates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Petroleum Exploration Block Co-ordinate Points Map<\/a>: Government of Kenya<\/p>\n<p>Revised Edition 2006<\/p>\n<p>The four basins are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anza Basin;<\/li>\n<li>Mandera Basin;<\/li>\n<li>Tertiary Rift Basin; and<\/li>\n<li>Lamu Basin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" data-post_type=\"page\" data-cat=\"\" data-modified=\"120\" data-title=\"Opportunities for Oil Exploration\" data-home=\"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opportunities for Oil and Gas Exploration in Kenya The Basins Kenya\u2019s Petroleum potential is best depicted by the four large sized sedimentary basins that straddle the Country (sedimentary basins &amp; exploration blocks map). These are Lamu, Anza, Mandera, and Tertiary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/opportunities-for-oil-exploration\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationaloil.co.ke\/website_11ab3dee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}