By Philip Mwakio
The Kenya Petroleum Oil Refineries Ltd (KPRL) will shut down the Mombasa plant for almost a month for maintenance.
The engineering manager, Charles Nguyai, said the exercise which starts June 1, will include equipment inspections, repairs, preventive and proactive maintenance.
"This is done to ensure plant integrity, reliability and safe operations for next 60 months,’’ Nguyai said.
Previous shut downs were conducted in 2004 for refinery complex I and in 2006 for refinery complex II.
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Nguyai made the remarks at the plant boardroom offices during a media briefing.
Benefits
KPRL General Manager, John Mruttu, added that the work would cost the firm Sh260 million.
A total number of 600 workers drawn from both nine external contractors and 14 local contractor firms will be deployed throughout for the exercise.
Meanwhile, KPRL’s gas turbine generator project aimed to supply power for refinery’s own use and to the national grid has already been tendered for.
Nguyai said that the gas turbine shall use fuel supplied from the refinery fuel system , which comprise a refinery fuel gas system and fuel oil system.
The electrical power generated by gas turbine generator will be used to drive refinery and hence isolate refinery from external power supply.
