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Kenya Pipeline Company: Pushing Boundaries and Soaring

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Kenya Pipeline Company: Pushing Boundaries and Soaring

Inadequate infrastructure has been blamed for the slow pace of commercialization of crude oil in Kenya as the country seeks about $5 billion (Sh500 billion) to develop and expand fuel facilities.

One state parastatal however is now banking on its vast infrastructure countrywide to foster the future of energy.

Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) is the country’s prime institution charged with the mandate to enhance, operate and maintain pipeline infrastructure in Kenya.

Now, the oil distribution company seeks to grow in scale as it leverages its comparative advantage in the oil and gas niche.

KPC operates 5 storage and distribution depots for imported refined petroleum products, located in Eldoret, Kisumu, Nakuru, Nairobi and Mombasa and which feed from the Kipevu Oil Storage Facility (KOSF)  in Mombasa.

The company also operates two aviation fuel depots at  Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, and  Moi International Airport, Mombasa.

The company is mandated to transport petroleum products from Mombasa to the hinterland, and through this mandate generates revenue for the Government of Kenya through dividends and taxes.

Unlike some State corporations, KPC does not depend on government subsidies, but is a self-funded commercial enterprise.

OIL

Oil mishandling and pollution can have devastating effects on the environment, and in cases of spillage, it can spread over any surface in a thin film thereby suffocating living organisms beneath.

KPC, however, has been at the forefront of maintaining international standards and quality of oil, mitigating oil-related incidents and setting rules and regulations that govern transportation and usage of petroleum products in the country since its inception in 1978.

As part of its expanding role in the oil and gas subsector, KPC leased Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited (KPRL) in 2017 and has continue to develop the facility to receive trucked crude oil from the Lokichar Basin which culminated in the first ever crude oil export from East Africa.

The company’s growing investments in KPRL include rehabilitation of crude oil tanks, receipt and discharge pipelines and the connection to the new oil jetty at Kipevu Oil Terminal (KOT). This will culminate in the full acquisition of the facility slated for the current fiscal year 2020/21.

SAFETY

KPC has state-of-the-art product testing laboratories meant for testing all petroleum products before they are admitted into its system.

This ensures all such products meet the applicable international quality standards which translates into safe handling and use by consumers.

The company transports products through pipelines built to international standards; a safe mode of transportation aimed at limiting product exposure to the surroundings.

While within the depots, products are handled in storage facilities fitted with advanced fire detection and protection systems to ensure their safety.

In addition, customer trucks that lift products from KPC depots are subjected to thorough safety inspections as a means of ensuring they are safe to handle such highly flammable products.

Those found not to conform to standards are prevented from accessing depots because they would not only be unsafe to handle petroleum products, but also pose a danger to the depots KPC operates and owns.

TRANSPORTATION AND LOGISTICS

In a bid to ensure that KPC alongside other key government parastatals runs smoothly, His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta issued Executive Order No. 5 of 2020 on 7th August, 2020 establishing a framework for the management, coordination and integration of port, railway and pipeline services under the Kenya Transport and Logistics Network (KTLN).

The network brings together Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), Kenya Railways Corporation (KRC) and Kenya Pipeline Company Limited (KPC) under the co-ordination of the Industrial and Commercial Development Corporation (ICDC).

This joint agreement will establish a unified and coordinated national transport and logistics network whose aim is to lower the cost of doing business through the provision of port, rail and pipeline services in a cost-effective manner within acceptable shared benchmark standards.

The collaboration is expected to go a long way in bolstering the business relationship that has existed between KPA, KPC and KRC over decades.

KPC’s funding collaboration has also enabled the Kenya Railways Corporation, the Kenya Defence Forces and the National Youth Service rehabilitate the Nairobi-Nanyuki Railway, which is going to be transformative for the Mt Kenya and Northern Kenya regions.

In effect, the extra revenue generated by Kenya Pipeline has been used to partly fund the President’s Big 4 Agenda being: food security, affordable housing, manufacturing and affordable healthcare for all.

KPC, through special dividends remitted to the Exchequer, has contributed Sh1.8 billion for the Nairobi-Nanyuki railway refurbishment; Sh2.7 billion for the Nakuru-Kisumu railway line rehabilitation and Sh400 million for the Port of Kisumu upgrade.

It further remitted an extra Sh11.2 billion to the Government in the 2019/20 financial year. All this revenue contributes to stimulation of Kenya’s economic recovery and growth.

COVID-19 MEASURES

As the effects of Covid-19 ravaged the country, KPC rolled out a free sanitizer campaign. “Amidst the hard-economic times, we unburdened the poor and vulnerable members of our society from buying sanitizers.

The trust between us, the Oil Marketing Companies and other like-minded stakeholders ensured that we successfully rolled out the campaign.

We produced over 1.6 million litres of sanitizer which was distributed to the most vulnerable groups in all 47 counties,” said Dr. Irungu.

In addition, KPC donated Sh55 million to the National Youth Service to produce masks which went a long way in assisting the less fortunate access masks.

Over 1.5 million masks were produced and distributed to the most vulnerable groups in the society across the 47 counties in Kenya.

FIBRE-OPTIC CABLING

To keep up with the developments and rate of growth in the sector, KPC has embraced modern technologies and trends to ensure work is quicker, more efficient and secure.

According to Dr. Irungu, the Corporation has capitalized vastly on a modern 96 core fiber optic cable that is about 1,000 KMs long across the cable plant.

“This network cable runs along the company’s pipeline network from the port city of Mombasa to Nakuru where it branches off to both Eldoret and Kisumu.

We are licensed by the Communications Authority of Kenya to lease the fiber resource to telecommunications providers who in turn use it to carry data traffic through a Tier 2 Network Infrastructure License.

Our partners in the data carrier space include Safaricom PLC, Jamii Telecom, & Wananchi Telecom,” he mentioned.

The cable design is so flexible that it enables these telecommunication service providers to serve their clients in townships along the Mombasa-Nairobi-Nakuru-Eldoret & Kisumu commercial corridor and the surrounding areas comfortably without experiencing lagging and downtime.

Despite stiff competition in high speed internet provision in the region, KPC’s fiber cable offering remains the most sort after and secure over the competition’s due to its enhanced protection against damage or fiber cuts.

This is also coupled with the fact that it runs underground next to the oil pipeline thus making it highly available and extremely reliable for internet and other data services at 99% availability. 

MORENDAT INSTITUTE OF OIL AND GAS

Morendat Institute of Oil & Gas (MIOG), is a Centre of Excellence established through an EAC Heads of State Summit resolution to offer capacity building in oil pipeline management, operations and maintenance in the Great Lakes Region.

The institute embraces the competency-based education and training model which calls for 70% practical, and 30% theory training.

This methodology which embodies theoretical and skills-based training, offers programs which can be accessed both online and offline; thus it prepares and assesses trainees through real life, hands-on training.

Programs are embedded in two standard classrooms with more than 80 specialized training programs which can be accessed by between 24 to 30 students simultaneously.

The 80 programs contain 4,800 lessons and about 1,000 interactive experiments.

The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted the smooth running of MIOG’s training schedule due to the need for social distancing.

The new normal occasioned by the coronavirus reality has compelled the Institute to embrace an online competency-based curriculum, despite other learning institutions having closed their educational facilities for almost a year.

The most affected courses were technical ones which cannot be considered complete without the trainees’ undergoing the actual hands-on training experience.

To ameliorate these effects, the Institute made use of its Smart Classroom technology which was introduced in 2019 and established in line with KPC’s Vision 2025 which aims at setting up an oil and gas investments hub in the region, thus entrenching Kenya as the gateway to East & Central Africa.

Among the online courses successfully conducted during the pandemic were: Workplace Safety, Health and Environment, Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Operations, permit to Work (PTW) Systems, and Domestic Safety.

MIOG is accredited by Technical, Vocational and Education Authority (TVETA) and complies with the Kenyan TVET Act, Curriculum Development Assessment and Certification Council (CDACC), and the National Qualification Authority (NQA) rules and regulations.

CORPORATE SOCIAL INVESTMENT

KPC has established strong Corporate Social Investment (CSI) programs where its collaborates closely with all the communities in Kenya, and especially those neighbouring our installations which include depots, pump stations and other facilities along our easement which stretches from Mombasa, traversing 14 Counties to Kisumu and Eldoret.

These CSI programs include a scholarship program famously known as “Inuka”, meant to benefit the needy and People Living with Disability (PWDs).

The twofold program; Inuka Social Empowerment Program, is aimed at enabling PWDs – access skills-based training and other economic opportunities; and the Inuka Scholarship Program enables PWDs access secondary level education.

Since its inception in 2016, the Company has consistently sponsored beneficiaries in all the 47 counties through the Inuka Scholarship Program, educating one child per county.

“Through the company’s CSR, we have been able to offer scholarship to children living with disabilities to access secondary school education.

I can happily confirm that we have enrolled a total of 188 girls and 188 boys under the special program,” said Dr Irungu.

Those who will successfully complete their secondary school education will continue to enjoy the company’s support until they achieve their aspirations in their chosen fields.

Through the scholarship program, KPC has spent approximately Sh52 million, translating to Sh14 million every year.

In addition, the Company has built a girls’ dormitory at Karare Secondary School in Marsabit County to retain girls in school where they are encouraged and mentored to take up science courses as well as motivate them to value education.

Considering that the locality in the past has considered girl-child education a waste of time and resources, this is a great feat.

Educational sponsorship is just one of many programs the company is supporting through its Foundation.

Such programs are aligned with focused areas as detailed in its CSI policy. These programs cover different sectors such as: education, health & environment, water and sanitation, sports for development and support for special groups, among others.

Other successful CSI projects include: Kochodin High School in Turkana County where KPC donated Kshs 10 Million towards the construction of a dormitory, two classrooms and two pit latrines.

This is in realization of an earlier promise by His Excellency, President Uhuru Kenyatta, to the people of Ngamia 1 in Turkana County.

At the cost of Sh5 Million, KPC also constructed a modern science laboratory at Lokitaung Girls High School in Turkana South.

This in line with the company’s policy to empower girls in science related subjects. Other key projects backed by the Company include the construction of four classrooms at Uswet Primary School the construction of a modern Library at Hema Secondary School in Kisii County, sponsorship of medical camps across the country as well as sponsoring various sports disciplines and clubs.

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"Black Panther" Is Also Breaking Box Office Records In Africa

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"Black Panther" Is Also Breaking Box Office Records In Africa

As you might have heard, Black Panther is a massive, record-breaking box office sensation.

Danai Gurira, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, and Florence Kasumba in Black Panther.

Matt Kennedy / Marvel Studios

Through Monday, the Marvel Studios release has earned $242.2 million domestically, the second best four-day return ever for a feature film, behind only Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Internationally, Black Panther is also a giant blockbuster, earning $184.6 million through Monday — and that’s before the film has premiered in China, Japan, and Russia, three of the biggest markets in the world.

Angela Bassett, Danai Gurira, Connie Chiume, Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan in Black Panther.

Matt Kennedy / Marvel Studios

The film has become a watershed for cinema starring black actors, dismantling the myth in Hollywood that they aren’t financially successful internationally. It is also an unprecedented hit for a film set in Africa — in Black Panther‘s case, the fictional nation of Wakanda, but still emphatically set within the continent.

So it’s perhaps not that surprising that Black Panther also broke several box office records in Africa. Disney confirmed to BuzzFeed News that the film earned the third biggest opening weekend in South Africa (behind 2015’s Furious 7 and 2017’s The Fate of the Furious), and set new opening weekend records in the film distribution territories of West Africa and East Africa (each consisting of several African countries).

Letitia Wright and Angela Bassett in Black Panther.

Matt Kennedy / Marvel Studios

The amounts of those records are fractions of what Black Panther has earned elsewhere in the world: In South Africa, it was $1.4 million; in West Africa, roughly $400,000, and East Africa, roughly $300,000.

Michael B. Jordan and Chadwick Boseman in Black Panther.

Matt Kennedy / Marvel Studios

Those figures indicate both how small and how new of a market sub-Saharan Africa remains for Hollywood features. For example, in Nigeria, which features a robust filmmaking industry known as Nollywood, many movies historically premiered either on television or direct to home video, bypassing theatrical distribution entirely.

Much like Black Panther‘s impact elsewhere, however, the film has created a new model for how Hollywood could roll out its feature films in major African markets — and smaller ones, too.

Black Panther enjoyed a rare red carpet premiere in South Africa, attended by several of the film’s stars, and actor Lupita Nyong’o’s father, Gov. Anyang’ Nyong’o, arranged for special private and public screenings in her hometown of Kisumu, Kenya on Feb. 13.

Lupita Nyong’o, John Kani, Danai Gurira, and Connie Chiume at the premiere of Black Panther in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Feb. 16, 2018.

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“This film is of importance to us as black people,” Sadra Orwa, a 21-year-old student studying in Kisumu, told BuzzFeed News at the event. “It’s a challenge to the whole world that no matter where you come from or what your color is, you can do the same thing as the next person. Maybe even better.”

Moviegoers relax on the red carpet ahead of the premiere of Black Panther in Kisumu, Kenya, on Feb. 13.

Nichole Sobecki for BuzzFeed News

Additional reporting by Tamerra Griffin.

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At the beginning of a race many are so energetic and enthusiastic ready to charge and cross the finish line to scoop the award but only a few have got that capability to win. Kisumu Fashion Friday is one in a million show, the organizers never back down on anything. Go-getters; “Madam Teqla and Brax the salon guy” as their alias go are those who face the bull by the horns with no fear of damages. Just like any other high fashion runway out there, KFF brings you the latest different fashion designs from well-established designers out there in Kisumu and beyond. More so, there you find to experience the ecstasy of your anticipated runway queens and kings from different regions in Kenya.

Started late last year, it’s still a toddler yes but the kind of audience it attracts during the runway showcasing, I bet it’s the new “BABA” on the block ever since Canaan became a myth to tell. It has been received with great pleasure by all the Kisumu modeling and fashion industry therefore expecting a boom this 2018 as it incorporates other already rocking brands , the likes of ZURI AFRIQUE, CLUB RADING, ONE VIBE AFRICA, LAKESIDE OUTRIDERS, HEART of ZION MODELING AGENCY, BAFRANO MUSIQ, MC STEEL, MC TALL and BRAX THE SALON GUY.

Now it’s bigger and better as word goes “New year, new resolutions” yes KFF is more than prepared to shock you with the best of the best starting on the 26th of January 2018. It’s a street fashion affair, one never witnessed before anywhere around the lake city of melanin queens and kings. The models aren’t left behind too, as a mother and child the organizers have prepared and put to place all the catalysts for the models and the large audience to enjoy and get entertained, from the Mcs, the Djs, artists and both hair, facial and nail make-up artists. Security being a key priority, it’s been beefed up to the maximum and your safety is fully guaranteed to your comfort. Come witness the dawn of a new full furnished fashion 2018 commence in style.

Get in touch with the organizers and models on social media through the accounts pages below:

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KISUMU FASHION FRIDAY.

ZURI AFRIQUE.

ONE VIBE AFRICA.

BRAX THE SALON GUY

HEART of ZION MODELING AGENCY.

LAKESIDE OUTRIDERS.

  FASHION LAKESIDE FLAMES SO BRIGHT!!!! At the beginning of a race many are so energetic and enthusiastic ready to charge and cross the finish line to scoop the award but only a few have got that capability to win.