KPC ABANDONED PLANS TO REPLACE OLD PIPELINE IN KENYA

Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has abandoned it’s plans to replace part of its old Mombasa-Nairobi line which has been leaking recently.

According to KPC Managing Director Macharia Irungu, the plan was halted after the company realised that it could still be served by the Sh48 billion new line launched in 2018.

Quoting Irungu, “We realised it would be a waste of funds when we can still operate the new line to cover for what we would have needed the repaired pipeline for. We will come up with a better plan for the old line.”

Before the plan was put in halt, a tendering process was in the process. This process would have seen a firm contracted to replace 15 kilometres of the leakage-prone line, which ruptured again last week, spilling an unknown quantity of jet fuel and kerosene.

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