Kipevu Oil Terminal to Be Relocated
The Kipevu Oil Terminal at Mombasa Port will be relocated early next year, to Dongo Kundu area, as a result of the ongoing capacity expansion program, the Kenya Ports Authority announced.
The new oil terminal is expected to have a capacity to accommodate four vessels of up to 200,000 DWT. The project also involves building new cargo handling facilities with both subsea and land based pipelines and four berths capable of loading/discharging crude oil, HFO, DPK-aviation, AGO-Diesel and PMS-Petrol.
The other element is the topside, whose initial implementation will be for three berths but layout will recognize the need for implementation of the fourth berth at a later date. There will also be a subsea pipeline corridor and associated number of pipelines that will have an element of pre-investment to accommodate all the four berths. Others are on shore pipeline to a designated tie-in location and a SCADA and Control System.
The project’s international tender for leading and supervising construction works saw more than 31 bidders from more than 15 countries, including England, South Africa, China, Japan, Australia, India, Dubai, USA, United Arab Emirates, Spain, Netherlands and Portugal among others. Tenders for construction went out on July 2016 ahead of actual construction early next year. The construction period is pegged at 30 months.
The short-listed companies for the planned offshore jetty at the Port of Mombasa are China Gezhouuba Group, Sinopec International Petroleum Service Corporation, Boskalis Dredging & Marine Experts, CPECC & Power China JV, China CAMC Engineering and Besix, CMR & Van Oord. Others are China Railway Construction Corporation, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, SAIPEM AFCONS Infrastructures, Jan De Nul, China Communications Construction Company and Dredging International.
Danish engineering firm Niras was in 2014 tasked with designing the new facility at a cost of $1.7 million (Sh172.3 million).
The jetty is expected to increase efficiency in delivery of imported refined fuel for Kenya’s domestic use and export to Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
KPA also plans to more than double the capacity of its fuel terminal in Nairobi to cater for the extra flow of petroleum products when a new pipeline linking the capital with Mombasa becomes operational in the end of this year.
