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New lease of life for defunct Mombasa refinery after Lokichar crude

Hundreds of Kenyans camp outside the Mombasa's Changamwe KPRL ,Mombasa refinery main gate in Mombasa County on Thursday,7th June,2018, hoping to find jobs following the arrivals for storage in Mombasa of the first Crude Oil consignment from Lokichar, Turkana.[Maarufu Mohamed,Standard]

Scores of youth thronged the Kenya Petroleum Oil Refineries plant in Changamwe, Mombasa, as the facility came back to life.

The plant received the first batch of the initial Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) from the oil fields of Turkana, 1,000km away on Thursday.

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