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New Kipevu Oil Terminal to be ready by August 2021
The new oil terminal will handle bigger volumes of fuel products.
Works have been underway since February last year. PHOTO/COURTESY
The New Kipevu Oil Terminal, whose construction is underway in Mombasa, will be ready by August next year – enabling bigger volumes of fuel products to move in and out of Kenya.
The President’s Delivery Unit (PDU) said the completion of the Sh40 billion facility will enable the port of Mombasa to handle bigger volumes of fuel products while breathing a new life to a terminal that has existed for more than 50 years.
“The New Kipevu Oil Terminal will have a capacity of 100,000 metric tonnes and handle over four vessels at a time….It will also have a Liquid Petroleum Gas line which will increase LPG supply in the country,” PDU said.
Works on the Kipevu Oil Terminal project have been underway since February last year as the government seeks to supplement the two existing facilities at Shimanzi and the old Kipevu terminal, which are too small to handle large quantities of imported oil and gas.
On completion, the new oil terminal will have four berths capable of handling the importation and exportation of crude oil, heavy fuel oil, aviation fuel, petrol, and diesel.
The New Kipevu Oil Terminal will handle up to four vessels with a Dead Weight Tonnage (DWT) of 200,000 and an LPG line that is hoped to stabilise gas supply in the country.
It will have undersea and on-land pipelines that will connect it to Kipevu storage facilities.]
The existing terminal, which handles more than 90 per cent of petroleum products into Kenya and in transit to Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, can only manage 35,000 tonnes of cargo at a time.
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The new oil terminal will handle bigger volumes of fuel products.
Works have been underway since February last year. PHOTO/COURTESY
The New Kipevu Oil Terminal, whose construction is underway in Mombasa, will be ready by August next year – enabling bigger volumes of fuel products to move in and out of Kenya.
The President’s Delivery Unit (PDU) said the completion of the Sh40 billion facility will enable the port of Mombasa to handle bigger volumes of fuel products while breathing a new life to a terminal that has existed for more than 50 years.
“The New Kipevu Oil Terminal will have a capacity of 100,000 metric tonnes and handle over four vessels at a time….It will also have a Liquid Petroleum Gas line which will increase LPG supply in the country,” PDU said.
Works on the Kipevu Oil Terminal project have been underway since February last year as the government seeks to supplement the two existing facilities at Shimanzi and the old Kipevu terminal, which are too small to handle large quantities of imported oil and gas.
On completion, the new oil terminal will have four berths capable of handling the importation and exportation of crude oil, heavy fuel oil, aviation fuel, petrol, and diesel.
The New Kipevu Oil Terminal will handle up to four vessels with a Dead Weight Tonnage (DWT) of 200,000 and an LPG line that is hoped to stabilise gas supply in the country.
It will have undersea and on-land pipelines that will connect it to Kipevu storage facilities.]
The existing terminal, which handles more than 90 per cent of petroleum products into Kenya and in transit to Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi, can only manage 35,000 tonnes of cargo at a time.
Ngong Road’s afterthought footbridges to cost Sh241m