Huge reprieve for Kenya Pipeline as Sh3.6b Triton scam award set aside

The diesel imported by Trition was stored at the KPC Kipevu Oil Storage Facility - a bonded warehouse. It was agreed by KPC that the only person that could authorise it to release oil to Triton was Glencore. [PHOTO: FILE]

The Court of Appeal has saved Kenya Pipeline Company from Sh3.6 billion legal debt after it overturned an award to a UK firm Glencore Energy Limited.

A three judge bench yesterday set aside the ruling by the High Court that would have seen the State corporation pay $40,330,379.75 to the energy firm over the Triton Petroleum Company oil scandal.