Thursday, November 28, 2013

Canyon Drilling East Africa Limited - East Africa's first locally-owned drilling contractor launched

Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil

East Africa's first land based locally-owned drilling contractor is just starting up, signalling the intention of local investors to get a share of the region's nascent hydrocarbon boom.

The company, Canyon Drilling East Africa Limited (CDEA), has been mostly funded with east African private equity sources and investors include Charles Mbire, chairman of MTN Uganda, a unit of South African mobile phone company MTN Group.

Based in the Kenyan

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