Kenyan officials have said that plans to extend a pipeline from its coastal city of Mombassa to the Ugandan capital of Kampala was on course and was expected to take 18 months or less once the tenders were awarded.Xinhua reports that Absalom Kosgei, Chief Technical Manager at the Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) told reporters that despite some problems in the tendering system, plans are still underway to connect neighbouring Uganda to the vast Mombassa- Nairobi-Eldoret oil pipeline.
KPC and its Ugandan counterpart, the Uganda Pipeline Company, are the main investment agencies in the $100 million project.
