The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is about to assemble a cooking gas storage facility on the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL). The move is predicted to ease the importation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) into the country, increasing competitors amongst oil entrepreneurs and, in flip, bringing down the cost of the gasoline.
The facility can be expected to enable players to import cooking gasoline through the Open Tender System (OTS), a fuel importation mechanism supervised by the Petroleum Ministry that contracts oil firms with the bottom bids to import petroleum products on behalf of the trade. The bulk storage facility, to be owned by the federal government, may also usher in an era of worth controls for cooking fuel.
KPC has began the search for a corporation that it stated would provide engineering designs for the proposed facility, which is ready to inform the method of choosing a contractor for the development works.
The consultant will also undertake environmental impact evaluation in addition to LPG demand within the Kenyan market. “ หลักการทํางานของpressuregauge proposed new facility is to be designed as a ‘common user’ facility for dispensing LPG to involved events by way of rail siding, truck loading, and bottling amenities,” mentioned KPC in tender documents.
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“KPC is desirous of implementing storage capacity of at least 25,000 metric tonnes within the medium time period and 50,000 metric tonnes in the long run subject to confirmation after endeavor the LPG demand examine.” The facility at KPRL, which KPC runs through a lease, might be linked to the second Kipevu Oil Terminal (KOT 2), which is nearing completion.
In 2005, a examine collectively conducted by the Ministry of Energy and The World Bank really helpful that LPG storage amenities with complete capacities of 8700 tonnes be arrange in the three cities together with Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, and the two major cities of Eldoret and Nakuru.
Meanwhile, KPC is looking for a transaction adviser to help it conclude the takeover of the defunct KPRL because it seeks to boost its storage capacity. KPRL was positioned under the management of KPC in 2017 as a storage facility for imported crude oil after Indian investor Essar failed to revive the country’s only oil refinery.
KPRL has 45 tanks with a complete storage capability 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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