Refinery

Mombasa Refinery

KPRL ·Mombasa, KE ·v1.1

A 90,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Mombasa, KE, operated by KPRL. Nelson Complexity 4.

Record

Rated capacity
90,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Nelson Complexity Index
4
Status
Operating
Operator
KPRL
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/kprl-mombasa
Coordinates
-4.0400, 39.6700

Notes

News headline indicates Kenya Petroleum Refineries and Essar Oil are planning to expand Mombasa Refinery, which implies the facility is currently operational. Expansion projects are typically undertaken on functioning facilities rather than closed ones. The utilization estimate reflects a facility undergoing expansion planning.

What coverage reports

2,066 days since one was reported

National Oil backs bid to shut down Mombasa refinery
2020-12-24 · 1 publisher filed it

0 reported in 12 months
2024-092026-08
stories filed per month · red = a disruption

These are counts of what publishers filed about this plant, not an operating status. A quiet month means nobody named this facility that month, which is a fact about coverage and not about the plant. Where this site states how a refinery is running it says so in the facts table above, from the curated dataset, and cites it there.

Wire

27 records12 Jun 2004 to 28 May 2026General 18 · Expansion 5 · Operations 4
  1. General Low
    Dangote Shifts Mega Oil Refinery Plan To Mombasa Kenya
    streamlinefeed.co.ke · matched mombasa
  2. General Low
    Dangote supports a Mombasa refinery, so why is Ruto pushing for Tanzania’s Tanga?
    The Africa Report · matched mombasa
  3. General Low
    Dangote East Africa Refinery: Mombasa or Tanga Location Debate
    Discovery Alert · matched mombasa
  4. General Low
    Dangote Shifts $17B East African Refinery Plans to Mombasa
    Billionaires.Africa · matched mombasa
  5. General Low
    Africa’s richest man plans new Mombasa oil refinery: Why this matters
    Al Jazeera · matched mombasa
  6. General Low
    Dangote Leans Toward Mombasa for East Africa Mega-Refinery
    The Kenyan Wallstreet · matched mombasa
  7. General Low
    Kenya Abandons Mombasa Refinery as Ruto Backs KES 2.5 Trillion Tanzania Mega-Plant
    streamlinefeed.co.ke · matched mombasa
  8. General Low
    Refining the Gateway: Kenya’s Oil Ambitions Rest on Mombasa’s Port
    The Coast Media Group · matched mombasa
  9. Expansion Medium
    Kenya Petroleum Refineries and Essar Oil to Expand Mombasa Refine...
    Industrial Info Resources · matched mombasa
  10. General Low
    Kenya authorises state-owned KPC to take over Mombasa refinery
    Enerdata · matched mombasa
  11. General Low
    Mombasa refinery to get new lease of life in biofuels plan
    standardmedia.co.ke · matched mombasa
  12. General Low
    Mombasa refinery dilemma finally headed for solution
    Business Daily · matched mombasa
  13. Operations Critical
    National Oil backs bid to shut down Mombasa refinery
    Business Daily · matched mombasa
  14. General Low
    State warns KPRL over huge losses at Mombasa refinery
    Business Daily · matched mombasa
  15. General Low
    State to convert Mombasa refinery into storage plant
    businessdailyafrica.com · matched mombasa
  16. General Low
    Government takes over full ownership of Mombasa refinery
    Business Daily · matched mombasa
  17. General Low
    Ministry renews bid to revive Mombasa refinery
    Business Daily · matched mombasa
  18. Operations Low
    Workers protest over plans to close Mombasa refinery
    Business Daily · matched mombasa
  19. Expansion Low
    Essar plan for $500m upgrade of Mombasa refinery suffers yet another setback
    The EastAfrican · matched mombasa
  20. Expansion Low
    Mombasa refinery to import, sell oil
    The EastAfrican · matched mombasa
  21. Expansion Low
    Kenya Pipeline moves to acquire Mombasa refinery
    Daily Nation · matched mombasa
  22. Operations Low
    Meeting over idle Mombasa refinery postponed
    Daily Nation · matched mombasa
  23. Expansion Medium
    Kenya Mombasa refinery to double crude processing
    Daily Nation · matched mombasa
  24. General Low
    Defunct Mombasa refinery goes operational
    Devdiscourse · matched mombasa
  25. General Low
    New lease of life for defunct Mombasa refinery after Lokichar crude
    standardmedia.co.ke · matched mombasa
  26. General Low
    Essar Energy blames Kenya for Mombasa refinery paralysis
    livemint.com · matched mombasa
  27. Operations Low
    KENYA • Kenya pushed to closing its Mombasa refinery - 12/06/2004
    Africa Intelligence · matched mombasa

Every item names this facility by city or plant name in its headline or summary. Operator-only mentions never attribute. Headlines and links belong to the publishers named.