General Information
Type: Simple Oil Refinery
Status:
Underway
Date Commissioned:
01.Jan.1963
Capacity:
3300 ktonnes/yr
Location:
Kenya
Mombasa
Related Organisations
has shareholder: Government of Kenya
Overview
The Mombasa refinery in Mombasa, Kenya, is a topping and reforming refinery with a nameplate distillation capacity of 3300 ktonnes per annum (90,000 bpd). The refinery went fully onstream in 1963 and was upgraded in 1974. It is owned by the Kenyan Government (50%), Caltex (11,75%), BP (12,7%), Shell (12,7%) and Mobil (12,85%), and was originally opened in 1954. The refinery is operated by Shell and supplies refined products to Uganda and Northern Tanzania in addition to the Kenyan market.
During 1994 the Mombasa refinery processed some two million tons of crude, about 10% less than what was required by the Kenyan market. In the past the refinery was fairly profitable but the strong Kenyan shilling in the second half of 1994 reversed this.
Since deregulation of the Kenyan fuel market in October 1994, the refinery has been running at approximately 70% of pre-October levels in order to meet local demand for LPG, a product that cannot be imported due to the lack of bulk handling facilities in Mombasa port. Some measure of protection has been afforded to the Refinery by the imposition of a special import tariff on gasoline and residual fuel oils.
Refinery Units
The Mombasa refinery has the following main production units: (Capacities in barrels per day)
| Refinery Units | Capacity (bpd) |
| Crude unit | 90,000 |
| Vacuum unit | 1,700 |
| Catalytic reformer | 9,600 |
| Distillate hydrotreater | 33,000 |
Contact Details
Postal Address: P O Box 90401, Changamwe, Mombasa, Kenya
