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Coast refinery now to operate bitumen facility

Transformation to happen at the end of early oil project set to begin in 2022. [File, Standard]

Part of the Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd’s (KPRL) plant in Mombasa is set to be transformed into a bitumen storage facility as the struggling firm looks for additional revenue streams. 

The Petroleum Ministry said the storage tanks currently being used to store crude oil for export under the Early Oil Pilot Scheme (EOPS) would be used to store bitumen at the end of the project.

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