The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is ready to construct a cooking gasoline storage facility on the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL). The transfer is expected to ease the importation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) into the nation, increasing competitors amongst oil entrepreneurs and, in turn, bringing down the cost of the gas.
เกจวัดแก๊ส is also anticipated to enable players to import cooking fuel via the Open Tender System (OTS), a fuel importation mechanism supervised by the Petroleum Ministry that contracts oil companies with the lowest bids to import petroleum products on behalf of the business. The bulk storage facility, to be owned by the federal government, may additionally usher in an era of value controls for cooking gasoline.
KPC has started the search for a company that it stated would offer engineering designs for the proposed facility, which is ready to inform the method of selecting a contractor for the construction works.
The advisor will also undertake environmental impact evaluation as properly as LPG demand within the Kenyan market. “ เกจวัดแรงดันถังแก๊ส 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 services,” 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 time period and 50,000 metric tonnes in the lengthy run subject to affirmation after enterprise the LPG demand research.” The facility 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 conducted by the Ministry of Energy and The World Bank really helpful that LPG storage services with complete capacities of 8700 tonnes be set up in the three cities together with Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, and the 2 main towns of Eldoret and Nakuru.
Meanwhile, KPC is in search of a transaction adviser to assist it conclude the takeover of the defunct KPRL as it seeks to boost its storage capability. KPRL was placed beneath 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 45 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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