Kenya rejects gasoline tanker from Nigeria due to specification

Apr 15 2020

Kenya Pipeline Company rejected a gasoline tanker from Asharami Synergy Limited, a subsidiary of a Nigerian oil conglomerate, due to poor fuel quality, according to an article in the Kenyan Daily Nation.

"When we sampled the cargo, we found that it had a FBP [final boiling point] of 204 degrees Celsius and thus could not be allowed into the country,” a senior official told the Nation.

The documents associated with the cargo stated that the FBP met the Kenya Bureau of Standards FBP of 200 degrees Celsius.

The National article

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