Kenya Engineer

Kenya Pipeline Company has awarded the contracts for construction of a 14 inch, 325 Km parallel Multi-Product Oil Pipeline from Nairobi to Eldoret to China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Corporation (CPPE) at a cost of US $ 179,353,678. A consortium of Shengli Engineering and Consulting Company Limited and Runji and Partners Consulting Engineers are the Project Consultants while M/S Floweserve...

The Joomla! team has about 1 million good reasons to be smiling about the Joomla! 1.5. In its current incarnation, it's had more than 1 million downloads, taking it to an unprecedented level of popularity. The new code base is almost an entire re-factor of the old code base. The user experience is still extremely slick but for developers...

Statoil’s Gjøa platform has become the first floating platform in the North Sea to be supplied with power from shore rather than use power generated by gas turbines. When electrical power was connected on 11 July 2010, the platform started to use what is claimed to be the world’s longest alternating current (AC) cable from land to a floating...

The Commission has issued a new determination on interconnection tariffs for fixed and mobile telecommunications services in the country.According to Interconnection Determination No. 2 of 2010 dated today(16 august 2010), the Commission reduced mobile interconnection rates from the current Kshs4.42 per minute to Kshs2.21, representing a 50 per cent drop. The rates will progressively decline by 35%, 20% and...

Integrated telecommunications provider, Telkom Kenya, has supported the recent decision by the East African Community (EAC) partner states to ban scrap metal exports in the region, which will stem exports of vandalized Telkom copper cables. The export ban comes in the wake of rising concerns around the impact of scrap metal exports on industries within the EAC region.In a...

The Masinga Dam wall is to be raised by 1.5 metres at a cost of Sh1.1 billion. According to the national power generator. The Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen) said the expansion will increase the capacity of the dam by more than 400 million litres to nearly 2 billion litres. This will help contain the current overflow of 125...

With the record inflow of water to the Seven Forks dams and with Masinga reservoir full to overflowing – it has reached its optimum capacity of 1056.5 metres on 10 May - the generation of hydro power has returned to its former high levels. Ken-Gen therefore gave Aggreko Plc three months notice of its intention to terminate 100 megawatts...

Kenya Data Networks (KDN) and PCCW Global, a premier telecommunications provider based in Hong Kong, have signed a Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Inter-Carrier Interconnection  agreement to extend services to more than 110 countries worldwide. The new technology is faster, compared to the traditional routed networks, which process the information at every router throughout the network.KDN Chief Executive Officer...

The Government has extended the deadline for SIM card registration for a further one month.  Mobile subscribers who have not yet registered their SIM cards now have up to August 31, 2010 to do so. “After that date, we will disconnect all lines that will not have been registered,” Information and Communications Permanent Secretary Dr. Bitange Ndemo said.Announcing the...

Cisco announced today that the Wananchi Group, Africa’s pioneering provider of triple-play (broadband, multichannel cable television and voice telephony) and VSAT (broadband data and internet) services, has signed a contract for the purchase of Cisco network technology solutions and services in East Africa. The agreement is supported by Cisco Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cisco systems, specialising in...