KPC drops plan to replace part of old, leaking pipeline


Nation | by Edwin Okoth

Kenya Pipeline Company has abandoned an earlier plan to replace part of its old Mombasa-Nairobi line, which recently leaked.

The company quietly froze a tendering process that would have seen a firm contracted to replace 15 kilometres of the leakage-prone line, which ruptured again last week, spilling an unknown quantity of jet fuel and kerosene.

KPC Managing Director Macharia Irungu said the plan was halted after the company realised…

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