{"id":435312,"date":"2011-06-03T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/03\/mombasa-refinery-to-commission-power-plant\/"},"modified":"2011-06-03T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T09:51:19","slug":"mombasa-refinery-to-commission-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/mombasa-refinery-to-commission-power-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Mombasa Refinery to Commission Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"44.3345454545\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Business Daily<\/a> (Nairobi)<\/p>\n<p>Zeddy Sambu<\/p>\n<p>2 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>The Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited has said it will commission a power plant by year end, stabilising supply to the facility in the event of outages.<\/p>\n<p>The $13 million (about Sh1.12 billion) 9 megawatt plant announced last year will use materials derived during processing of crude oil.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery CEO Bimal Mukherjee said generators had been tested, paving way for civil works and construction of tanks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The KPRL board has decided to fast-track the building of a dedicated power plant at the refinery. This will resolve the issue of external power supply interruptions which have recently caused production problems,&#8221; said Mr Mukherjee, in a statement following a board meeting on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>A month ago, external power failure saw the refinery shut down for one week. The power generation venture is part of short term improvements at the facility meant to confront challenges arising from lack of investments in equipment and frequent power outages. KPRL supplies 40 per cent of the local demand but is unable to meet demand due to inconsistent power supply, equipment failure, and poor technology.<\/p>\n<p>Power upsets lead to interruptions in product supply in the market leading to damage of the equipment used in the manufacture of petrol. Other plans include switching from KPRL&#8217;s current tolling model to a merchant model, a move aimed at making the refinery more accountable to oil marketing companies and to consumers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>White oils<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Essar Energy has since mid 2009 held a 50 per cent interest in the Mombasa refinery and is also the firm&#8217;s operator under the Technical Services Agreement. The other half is owned by the Government.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery was commissioned in 1963 and has a capacity of four million tonnes of crude per year (80,000 barrels per day).<\/p>\n<p>However, it currently processes only 1.6 million tonnes of crude per year or 32,000 barrels per day.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery, the only one in East Africa, serves Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda. Tanzania imports refined products, known as white oils.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106030499.html\" title=\"Mombasa Refinery to Commission Power Plant\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mombasa Refinery to Commission Power Plant<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Business Daily (Nairobi) Zeddy Sambu 2 June 2011 The Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited has said it will commission a power plant by year end, stabilising supply to the facility in the event of outages. The $13 million (about Sh1.12 billion) 9 megawatt plant announced last year will use materials derived during processing of crude oil. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":435313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-435312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mombasa Refinery to Commission Power Plant - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/03\/mombasa-refinery-to-commission-power-plant\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mombasa Refinery to Commission Power Plant - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Business Daily (Nairobi) Zeddy Sambu 2 June 2011 The Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited has said it will commission a power plant by year end, stabilising supply to the facility in the event of outages. 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