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NNPC names four suppliers
of contaminated gasoline
AFRICA NIGERIAN National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC) Antwerp. It also quoted Mele Kyari, the group
issued a statement on February 10 naming four managing director of NNPC, as saying that the
of the companies that supplied the contami- NOC’s quality inspectors had carried out tests
nated gasoline that is being blamed for recent showing that the fuel met Nigerian standards
shortages. prior to discharge.
In the statement, the national oil company But on January 20, Kyari said, an NNPC
(NOC) identified the firms in question as MRS, inspector determined that the fuel contained
the Emadeb/Hyde/AY Maikifi/Brittania-U Con- unacceptably high levels of methanol. This
sortium, Oando and Duke Oil. occurred after discharge, at a point where petro-
The fourth is a subsidiary of state-owned leum products are subject to more stringent
NNPC, it noted. inspections, he said.
All four of these companies are classified as “It is important to note that the usual qual-
Direct-Sale-Direct-Purchase (DSDP) suppliers ity inspection protocol employed in both the
eligible to import petroleum products in co-op- load port in Belgium and our discharge ports
eration with NNPC, it said. in Nigeria do not include the test for percent
The statement noted that all four of these methanol content and therefore the additive
firms had loaded their tankers with gasoline at was not detected by our quality inspectors,” he
the LITASCO terminal in the Belgian port of explained.
TENDERS
Australians, French, Italians
tipped for EACOP contracts
AFRICA FOUR international companies have been comprises the development of multiple oilfields
tipped for contracts within the framework of the in western Uganda. The upstream component
$5bn East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) of the project calls for the establishment of pro-
project, the Daily Monitor reported on Febru- duction and processing infrastructure at Tilenga,
ary 7. operated by the French major TotalEnergies, and
The contractors include Australia’s Worley, Kingfisher, operated by China National Offshore
the French multinationals Schneider Electric Oil Corp. (CNOOC).
and Bolloré Logistics and Italy’s ISOF Constru- EACOP, which will follow a 1,443-km route
zioni SRL. from Hoima in Uganda to the port of Tanga in
Worley is slated to execute an engineering, Tanzania, is set to be the world’s longest heated
procurement and construction management oil pipeline. Construction is due to start in 2023
(EPCM) contract, while Schneider will carry and will take two years to complete. The link will
out an electrical, instrumentation, telecoms and have a throughput capacity of 216,000 barrels
security (EITS) contract, which will cover the per day (bpd).
supply and installation of the pipeline’s security
and fibre-optic systems.
ISOF has agreed to build a coating plant for
the consortium’s pipelines and fittings in Dar es
Salaam, and Bolloré will provide logistics ser-
vices related the delivery of at least 100 km of
pipe per month to the coating plant.
“These [contractors] have been presented to
local entrepreneurs both in Uganda and Tan-
zania through our local contract workshops,”
EACOP managing director Martin Tiffen was
quoted as saying by the Daily Monitor.
EACOP is a key component of the $10bn
Lake Albert Development Project, which also
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