The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is set to assemble a cooking gasoline storage facility on the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL). เพรสเชอร์เกจวัดแรงดันน้ำ is anticipated to ease the importation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) into the nation, growing competition amongst oil entrepreneurs and, in flip, bringing down the cost of the gas.
The facility is also expected to allow players to import cooking gasoline through the Open Tender System (OTS), a gasoline importation mechanism supervised by the Petroleum Ministry that contracts oil firms with the lowest bids to import petroleum products on behalf of the trade. The bulk storage facility, to be owned by the federal government, might also usher in an era of worth controls for cooking gasoline.
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 construction works.
The advisor may also undertake environmental impact assessment in addition to LPG demand in the Kenyan market. “The proposed new facility is to be designed as a ‘common user’ facility for dishing out LPG to involved parties through rail siding, truck loading, and bottling facilities,” mentioned KPC in tender documents.
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“KPC is desirous of implementing storage capability of at least 25,000 metric tonnes in the medium term and 50,000 metric tonnes in the long run subject to confirmation after enterprise the LPG demand study.” 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 research collectively carried out by the Ministry of Energy and The World Bank beneficial that LPG storage amenities with total capacities of 8700 tonnes be set up in the three cities including Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, and the two main cities of Eldoret and Nakuru.
Meanwhile, KPC is in search of a transaction adviser to help it conclude the takeover of the defunct KPRL as it seeks to boost its storage capability. KPRL was placed under the management of KPC in 2017 as a storage facility for imported crude oil after Indian investor Essar didn’t revive the country’s solely oil refinery.
KPRL has forty five tanks with a total storage capacity of 484 million litres. About 254 million litres is reserved for refined products while 233 million litres is for crude oil.
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