The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is set to assemble a cooking gasoline 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, rising competitors among oil entrepreneurs and, in flip, bringing down the worth of the gasoline.
The facility can additionally be anticipated to enable gamers to import cooking gasoline by way of the Open Tender System (OTS), a gasoline importation mechanism supervised by the Petroleum Ministry that contracts oil companies with the bottom bids to import petroleum merchandise on behalf of the industry. เกจวัดแรงดันpcp , to be owned by the federal government, could additionally usher in an era of worth controls for cooking gas.
KPC has started the search for a corporation that it mentioned would offer engineering designs for the proposed facility, which will inform the method of selecting a contractor for the development works.
The consultant will also undertake environmental influence evaluation in addition to LPG demand within the Kenyan market. “The proposed new facility is to be designed as a ‘common user’ facility for dishing out LPG to interested events through rail siding, truck loading, and bottling amenities,” stated KPC in tender documents.
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“KPC is desirous of implementing storage capacity of no much less than 25,000 metric tonnes within the medium term and 50,000 metric tonnes in the lengthy term topic to affirmation after enterprise the LPG demand examine.” เครื่องมือใช้วัดความดัน at KPRL, which KPC runs via a lease, might be linked to the second Kipevu Oil Terminal (KOT 2), which is nearing completion.
In 2005, a research collectively carried out by the Ministry of Energy and The World Bank recommended that LPG storage amenities with complete capacities of 8700 tonnes be set up within the three cities together with Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, and the 2 major 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 boost its storage capacity. KPRL was placed underneath the administration of KPC in 2017 as a storage facility for imported crude oil after Indian investor Essar didn’t revive the country’s only oil refinery.
KPRL has 45 tanks with a total 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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