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    "id": 1242445,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1242445/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chirchir",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13110,
        "legal_name": "Zipporah Jepchirchir Kittony",
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will take them very quickly. Sen. Abass from Wajir, on exploration, when we do a production sharing contract with a company which is prospecting in a block, there are very clear deliverables, including drilling one or two exploration wells, to establish the secondary resource after doing the service studies. These are magnetic or different scientific ways of establishing presence of a resource. Thereafter, you will go to appraisal wells and commercial wells; you just do not drill. This is because to drill one well can cost up to USD5 million. In the production sharing contract, it is a requirement under the work deliverables that they end up drilling a well. Sometimes, a prospecting company which gets a production sharing contract would like to exit before they drill a well. However, we hold them to the responsibilities of the contract. Therefore, we will continue to ensure that they fulfil the production sharing contract. This is because it is an agreement on the process of studying for these resources. Like for Tullow Oil Company, when they reach field development phase, they will go into commercial production. Therefore, they need to drill commercial wells. This is where the significant investments, which I talked to adding up to USD3.5 billion go into. Regarding Wajir, I am quite sorry about what has happened there. I personally promise that I would sort out the issue before Idd. This is because I am on top of it. I get a report on what is happening in Wajir every morning and evening. It cannot be that a county like Wajir town does not have power. I do know that the two power generators, which have been serving the town are down. Engineers are on the ground and they are not working. We started procurement of two new generators, where the tenders closed yesterday. I talked to two Members of Parliament (MPs) from that region yesterday. The tenders closed yesterday and we will expedite. We should have bought these generators much earlier. However, there are procurement regulations that unless you have an approved budget, you do not tender. The funding is there and the tender closed yesterday. Therefore, it will be evaluated and we will make sure we deliver those two generators of one megawatt each"
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