The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is ready to construct a cooking fuel storage facility at the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL). The move is expected to ease the importation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) into the country, growing competition amongst oil marketers and, in turn, bringing down the value of the gasoline.
The facility can be expected to allow gamers to import cooking gasoline through the Open Tender System (OTS), a gas importation mechanism supervised by the Petroleum Ministry that contracts oil corporations with the lowest bids to import petroleum merchandise on behalf of the industry. เครื่องมือที่ใช้ในการวัดความดัน , to be owned by the government, could additionally usher in an era of worth controls for cooking fuel.
KPC has started the search for a corporation that it stated would supply engineering designs for the proposed facility, which will inform the process of choosing a contractor for the development works.
The marketing consultant may also undertake environmental impression assessment in addition to LPG demand in the Kenyan market. “The proposed new facility is to be designed as a ‘common user’ facility for allotting LPG to fascinated parties via rail siding, truck loading, and bottling services,” said KPC in tender paperwork.
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“KPC is desirous of implementing storage capability of no less than 25,000 metric tonnes in the medium term and 50,000 metric tonnes in the long run subject to affirmation after endeavor the LPG demand examine.” The facility at KPRL, which KPC runs via a lease, shall be linked to the second Kipevu Oil Terminal (KOT 2), which is nearing completion.
In 2005, a study jointly performed by the Ministry of Energy and The World Bank recommended that LPG storage facilities with total capacities of 8700 tonnes be arrange in the three cities together with Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, and the two main cities of Eldoret and Nakuru.
Meanwhile, KPC is looking for a transaction adviser to help it conclude the takeover of the defunct KPRL as it seeks to spice up its storage capability. KPRL was placed beneath the administration 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 products whereas 233 million litres is for crude oil.
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