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Fuel shortage looms as oil firms clog pipeline systems in protest

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 Boda boda riders and motorists line up to fuel at a petrol station in Nakuru town on April 2, 2022. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

Kenyans are staring at another fuel supply disruption with the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) unable to move products from the coast to the rest of the country as its systems are filled up.

Oil marketing companies are not taking their products, specifically diesel, out of the KPC system. This has clogged up its pipelines and depots, such that it cannot move any products from the Kenyan coast to Nairobi and further to Western Kenya.

KPC warns that failure by the marketers to evacuate the diesel out of the system could result in a shortage of super petrol in Nairobi and Western Kenya. The company said the problem has persisted since July but is now getting to a point where the country might be plunged into another fuel supply crisis.

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