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Low cooking gas prices expected as LPG plant receives shipment

MT Barumk Gas offloading 11475 metric tons of Liquefied Petroleum Gas )LPG) via the offshore Conventional buoy system (CBM) at the 10,000 metric tons  storage facilty at Lake Gas Vipingo LPG Terminal in Vipingo Kilifi County. [Joackim Bwana, Standard]

The Sh8 billion Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) storage facility in Kilifi County on Wednesday received its first shipment of cooking gas amid growing safety concerns over the project.

Lake Gas, the operator of the plant, received the maiden consignment of 11,474 metric tonnes of LPG from Nigeria at its Vipingo terminal.

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