Last Updated 13 years ago by Kenya Engineer
Months after the shutdown of Kenya’s refinery, Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL), the private sector is proposing that the facility be turned into a storage facility. The Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KePSA) proposes that the facility be converted to a storage terminal as it can no longer continue being a refinery.
The refinery was shut down last year following the pulling out of Essar Energy Oversees Limited after its studies showed that upgrading the facility to continue cleaning crude oil was not viable.
KePSA proposes that since Kenya does not have any strategic facility to store petroleum products for usage, the facility be turned to a storage terminal and that the private sector takes its back in the cause of getting financing and efficient management.
Since the KPRL does not fit into the Lapsset project which envisages a new refinery in Lamu, making it a storage facility is seen as the most viable alternative rather than shutting it down. With the discovery of oil fields in Northern Kenya and the strategic location of the refinery, the value of it for the country is even much more.
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