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Kenyan regulator cutting export quotas for

fuel companies amid domestic shortages

KENYA KENYA’S state energy regulator has said it will capacity to all OMCs whose local volume sales
reduce the import allocations of firms that increased above their normal quota during the
increased exports of petroleum products to same period.”
neighbouring countries and left local markets Kenya imports refined petroleum products
with insufficient fuel supply. through the centralized open tender system
The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory (OTS) overseen by the Ministry of Petroleum.
Authority (EPRA) warned on Tuesday (April The allocation of fuel thaht each OMC receives
12) in a letter sent to the heads of all oil market- when a tender is floated depends on Kenyan
ing companies (OMCs) operating in the country market share and transit volumes.
that it intended to take punitive action against The port of Mombasa handles fuel imports
errant firms. destined for use in the local market and exports
“EPRA has analyzed the daily petroleum to Uganda, northern Tanzania, Burundi, eastern
loadings over the past four weeks and noted that Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda
a number of OMCs have in the period under and South Sudan. ™
review given priority to export loadings while
the local market was left to suffer intermittent
supply,” said the regulator.
The letter was also sent to Petroleum and
Mining Principal Secretary Andrew Kamau
and was copied to Petroleum and Mining Acting
Cabinet Secretary Monica Juma, Kenya Pipeline
Co. (KPC) Managing Director Irungu Macharia
and Supply Co-ordination Committee Chair-
man Eric Fanchini.
EPRA’s Director-General Daniel Kiptoo
called for the reduction of capacity share for
all OMCs that increased their transit volumes
over and above their normal quota during the
supply crisis period. He was also quoted as say-
ing that he backed “a corresponding increase of The head of EPRA has urged punishments for some fuel exporters (File photo)

PROJECTS & COMPANIES
Wood to install Virtuoso process digital

twin platform on FPSO at Sangomar block

SENEGAL JOHN Wood Group, a UK-based engineer- the contract, the engineering firm will establish
ing firm, has won a contract from Australia’s multi-disciplinary teams to install and imple-
Woodside Energy for work on the floating pro- ment these systems in the control room of the
duction, storage and off-loading (FPSO) vessel Léopold Sédar Senghor FPSO, which will be
that will be installed at the Sangomar block off- installed at the block after its completion, and
shore Senegal. also in Woodside’s offices in Senegal, as well as
In a statement, Wood explained that the at its headquarters in Perth, Western Australia.
contract would involve the deployment of These systems will support the project by
combined production management systems allowing Woodside, the operator of the Sango-
(PMS) and virtual metering systems (VMS), mar block, to observe operations closely, make
leveraging its digital capabilities along with Vir- decisions quickly and reduce associated gas flar-
tuoso, its process digital twin platform. Under ing, Wood noted.

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