The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is about to construct a cooking gasoline storage facility on the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL). เกจ์วัดแรงดัน is anticipated to ease the importation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) into the nation, growing competitors amongst oil marketers and, in turn, bringing down the price of the gas.
The facility is also expected to enable gamers to import cooking fuel via the Open Tender System (OTS), a gas importation mechanism supervised by the Petroleum Ministry that contracts oil corporations with the bottom bids to import petroleum merchandise on behalf of the industry. The bulk storage facility, to be owned by the federal government, may also usher in an period of worth controls for cooking gasoline.
KPC has began the search for a corporation that it said would supply engineering designs for the proposed facility, which is able to inform the process of choosing a contractor for the development works.
The marketing consultant may even undertake environmental influence evaluation in addition to LPG demand in the Kenyan market. “The proposed new facility is to be designed as a ‘common user’ facility for dispensing LPG to involved parties by way of rail siding, truck loading, and bottling services,” mentioned KPC in tender documents.
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“KPC is desirous of implementing storage capacity of a minimal of 25,000 metric tonnes within the medium term and 50,000 metric tonnes in the lengthy run topic to confirmation after undertaking the LPG demand study.” The facility at KPRL, which KPC runs through a lease, will 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 recommended that LPG storage facilities with total capacities of 8700 tonnes be set up within the three cities including Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu, and the two major 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 capacity. KPRL was placed under 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 เกจวัดแรงดัน1บาร์ is reserved for refined products whereas 233 million litres is for crude oil.
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