{"id":950181,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/950181/?format=json","text_counter":72,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mandera South, JP","speaker_title":"Hon. Ali Adan","speaker":{"id":13418,"legal_name":"Adan Hajj Ali","slug":"adan-haji-ali"},"content":" Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to ask Question No.430/2019 to the Cabinet Secretary for Petroleum and Mining. (i) What is the status of seismic exploration being undertaken by M/s. Octant Energy in Kenya Block 1-Mandera North East at Elwak, Dabacity and Garse Sala towns in Mandera South Constituency which commenced in 2017? (ii) When will M/s. Octant Energy submit the seismic data and exploration findings of the1, 900 km section in Kenya Block 1to the Ministry? (iii) When will further exploration of a 300 km stretch of the same block, which was suspended in 2017, resume so as to facilitate data interpretation, well prognosis and drilling? Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."}