Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda have invited EOI (Expression Of Interest) to build a 784-kilometre pipeline
to transport while petroleum products. The project, to be built in in two
phases will transport refined petroleum products from Kenya to both Uganda and
Rwanda.
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The project, part of east African regional integration plans, involves
extending an existing pipeline that runs from the Kenyan port of Mombasa and
the western town of Eldoret.
The extension will link that pipeline to Kampala and Kigali and also serve
markets in Tanzania, Burundi, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Products now have to be trucked by road.
Uganda and Kenya have discovered commercial quantities of oil and plan to
start production in about three years. Those finds are among a series of
discoveries along Africa's eastern coast and Rift Valley which runs through
Kenya and other states.
As well as exporting crude, Uganda plans to refine some oil, making products
that could flow through the pipeline extension. Plans include modifying the
existing pipeline, which pumps products from the coast inland, so products can
flow both ways.
Interested parties should submit the
bids by Sept. 30.
The advertisement does not have a
price tag. However, previously the tag was estimated at $300 million.
The existing products pipeline is owned and operated by the state-run Kenya
Pipeline Company (KPC).
The extension would be built in two phases, comprising a 350-km stretch
between Eldoret and Kampala and a 434-km pipeline between the Ugandan capital
to Kigali. It also includes construction
of storage terminal at Kampala, Mbarara and Kigali.
Separate to the products pipeline, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda invited bids in
June for a consultant to oversee a feasibility study and initial design for a
1,300-kilometre oil export pipeline to the Kenyan coast.
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