Mimi nazungumzia LPG storage facility. Nyie gas yenu ni Lng au umesahau?
Kwenye LPG storage hamtufikii. Mombasa ina biggest Lpg storage terminal in Sub Saharan Africa. Soma hapa.
Mombasa mega gas terminal to ease prices in upgrade
Friday November 06 2020
Supply of cooking gas is set to increase following the upgrade of an import handling and storage terminal in Mombasa, setting the stage for a further drop in the cost of the commodity.
Africa Gas and Oil Ltd (AGOL) will have a storage capacity of 25,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from March when the upgrade of the facility initially built in 2013 is complete.
The AGOL facility was built to allow for bulk imports of cooking gas to lower unit costs through economies of scale and curb shortages, which had been made difficult by the smaller import terminal at Shimanzi.
It had a storage capacity of 10, 000 tonnes that will grow to 25,000 tonnes—making it the largest terminal in sub-Saharan Africa.
The import handling and storage unit has helped relieve demand pressures through reduction of stock-outs, effectively reducing the price of LPG.
“The upgraded facility will be complete in March and it will be able to handle 100, 000 tonnes per month,” said AGOL in a statement.
“The infrastructure investments will play a key role in boosting supply and lowering LPG prices. Previously, investment in import handling and storage was the key missing ingredient in the sector which had suffered decades of under supply, poor storage and weak distribution at the port of Mombasa.”
Previously, the oil marketers import cooking gas individually in small quantities due to inadequate gas discharge facilities.
This led to cooking gas shortages and expensive LPG due to high import premiums and demurrage, which are penalties marketers pay shipping companies when tankers fail to offload in the stipulated time period.
The Shimanzi terminal has a capacity of just 1,400 metric tonnes