The feasibility assessment has been finished, according to Davis Chirchir, the Kenyan Cabinet Secretary for Energy and Petroleum, and will soon be followed by the signing of a transnational agreement for the project.
The sale to rehabilitate the now-defunct state-owned Kenya Petroleum Refineries Ltd (KPRL) was finalized by Kenya, clearing the way for a gas pipeline to run from Dar es Salaam to Mombasa.
Kenya hired the US company K&M Advisors in December 2021 to carry out a feasibility assessment for Mombasa County’s gas power generation, which will be supplied by liquefied natural gas from Tanzania.
