| China National Petroleum wins US$43.6m pipeline contract in Kenya |
BEIJING, July 20 (AP) -- China National Petroleum Corp.'s pipeline unit has won a US$43.6 million (£á31.6 million) contract to expand the capacity of an oil pipeline in Kenya, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday.
The contract calls for the construction of four pump stations that will double the pipeline's capacity to 880,000 liters, or about 5,500 barrels, of oil products an hour, the ministry said in a posting on its Web site.
The pipeline runs from Kenya's oil import, storage and refining center at the port of Mombasa in the east to the country's capital Nairobi in the west.
Kenya wants to boost oil product supplies to its western regions to meet growing local demand.
CNPC, China's biggest oil company, is expanding its presence in Africa. It already has a number of oil assets in Sudan.
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