British energy explorer Tullow Oil said Friday an oil discovery in the Agete-1 exploration well in Kenya marks its fifth straight oil find in the region. Tullow said it encountered oil while drilling its Agete-1 wildcat well, which is positioned in a region not known previously to contain oil and natural gas reserves. “A fifth consecutive oil discovery onshore northern Kenya highlights the emerging world class exploration and production potential within our … acreage,” Angus McCoss, exploration director for Tullow, said in a statement Friday. McCoss said next year’s exploration campaign in the region would be “intensive.” Tullow provided no estimate of the potential from Agete-1. In October, Tullow halted operations at drilling sites in northern Kenya because of labor strikes. Work resumed Nov. 7 following talks with federal and local Kenyan officials. More than half of the 1,400 people employed by Tullow in […]