Refinery prepares to receive early oil

A businessman in Lokichar, Turkana county shows some crude oil. KPC says it will instal tanks with the capacity to hold 270 million litres of crude ahead of the first delivery from the Turkana fields. [File, Standard]

Storage facilities at the Mombasa refinery are being spruced up to start receiving crude oil from Turkana, the Kenya Pipeline Company has said.

The company, which entered into a three-year agreement to lease the Kenya Petroleum Refinery Ltd (KPRL) facilities, said it would have tanks with a capacity of 270 million litres ready to store crude oil for export under the Early Oil Pilot Scheme.