The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is set to assemble a cooking fuel storage facility at the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL). The transfer is anticipated to ease the importation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) into the nation, rising competitors amongst oil marketers and, in turn, bringing down the value of the fuel.
เกจวัดแรงกด is also anticipated to allow gamers to import cooking fuel via the Open Tender System (OTS), a gas importation mechanism supervised by the Petroleum Ministry that contracts oil companies with the bottom bids to import petroleum merchandise on behalf of the industry. The bulk storage facility, to be owned by the federal government, might additionally usher in an period of worth controls for cooking fuel.
KPC has started the search for a corporation that it mentioned would offer engineering designs for the proposed facility, which can inform the process of selecting a contractor for the development works.
The consultant may also undertake environmental impact evaluation as nicely as LPG demand in the Kenyan market. “The proposed new facility is to be designed as a ‘common user’ facility for allotting LPG to fascinated events through rail siding, truck loading, and bottling amenities,” mentioned KPC in tender paperwork.
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“KPC is desirous of implementing storage capacity of a minimal of 25,000 metric tonnes within the medium term and 50,000 metric tonnes in the lengthy term topic to affirmation after endeavor the LPG demand study.” The facility at KPRL, which KPC runs by way of a lease, might be linked to the second Kipevu Oil Terminal (KOT 2), which is nearing completion.
In 2005, a research jointly performed by the Ministry of Energy and The World Bank recommended that LPG storage facilities with whole capacities of 8700 tonnes be arrange in the three cities including Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, and the two main cities of Eldoret and Nakuru.
Meanwhile, KPC is seeking a transaction adviser to help it conclude the takeover of the defunct KPRL as it seeks to boost its storage capacity. KPRL was placed underneath the management of KPC in 2017 as a storage facility for imported crude oil after Indian investor Essar failed to revive the country’s solely oil refinery.
KPRL has forty five tanks with a complete storage capacity of 484 million litres. About 254 million litres is reserved for refined merchandise whereas 233 million litres is for crude oil.
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