Kenya's Rift Valley system and Lamu region has seen active Oil & Gas Exploration activities in the last few years and the country has a promising Upstream Oil and Gas Industry.
The Kenyan government is encouraging foreign interest in oil exploration and there is a modest upstream oil industry.

It is endowed with other energy sources including wood fuel, coal, solar and wind power, much of which is untapped. The country's commercial energy needs are supplied by electricity, coal, fuel wood and oil-derived products.

Tanzania has many energy resources which include natural gas, biomass, hydropower, geothermal, coal, solar and wind power. Much of this energy potential remains unexploited although the government hopes to change this situation and is promoting the expansion of this industry. This is part of an active policy by the government to replace imported petroleum products with locally produced products.

A project involving the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Songo-Songo to Dar-es Salaam is to be primary source of energy in the future.

The Albertine Graben in which oil has been discovered in Uganda is located in the western part of the country, mainly in Masindi, Kibale and Hoima district around Lake Albert which forms the northern most part of the western arm of the East African Rift Valley. It is situated at the Uganda and Congo border further stretching to the border with Sudan.  

According to the petroleum geologists, the Albertine Graben is greatly enriched with oil. It has been asserted that the Maputa and Waraga oil fields have approximately 100 to 400 million barrels of oil, whereas the Giraffe 1 region is expected to total at least 400 million barrels of oil. Additional exploration findings have estimated that there exists approximately 500 million barrels of oil at the kingfisher well in Hoima.