8 firms in waiting to clinch oil pipeline tender

Delay in putting in place the 892km crude oil pipeline could further put on hold plans for the commercial oil export phase of the Turkana oil project. [Photo: Courtesy]

The Energy and Petroleum Ministry has started the search for a firm to design the planned 892km crude oil pipeline between Turkana and Lamu.

The ministry said it had invited eight firms to bid for the tender to undertake the Front End Engineering Design (FEED), which entails feasibility studies and an initial design, for the pipeline that will move crude from the oil fields in Lokichar to Lamu Port for export.