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State edges KPC out of cooking gas plant deal for Nigerian firm

A section of the Oil lines connecting Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd and various oil marketers at the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited in Mombasa. [File, Standard]

The Ministry of Energy and Petroleum has quashed a plan by Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) to develop a massive cooking gas handling facility in Mombasa and instead handed it to a private player.

The private firm, Asharami Synergy, had given the Ministry a proposal to develop a similar plant on land owned by Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL), which is owned by KPC.

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