Project Profile
Value: $1050 million
Startup Year: 2014
Location: Mombasa
The Mombasa refinery supplies fuels to Kenya and its neighbors Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda. It has a nameplate capacity of 4.0 million tons a year but processes only 1.6 million tons due to inefficiencies.
The upgrade will include the installation of a desulphurisation plant for the production of low-sulphur diesel (the refinery cannot currently produce diesel with a sulphur content of less than 1%) The upgrade will boost the refinery\'s output of high-value light fuels including petrol (to be increased from 24,000 to 115,000 tpa), diesel and kerosene.
Essar will build a captive power plant at the refinery to take care of the disruption in power supplies.
Operators:
Kenya Pipeline Company Ltd (KPC): 100% interest
Contractor:
Foster Wheeler: Basis of design (BOD) - Managed out of UK office