Government has announced the successful conversion of the Tazama pipeline to transport low sulphur diesel.
Energy Minister Peter Kapala says the achievement is government’s commitment towards the improvement of the petroleum sub-sector and is expected to have a significant impact on the pump price for low Sulphur diesel in the country.
Mr. Kapala says the change in the mandate of the pipeline is aimed at reducing the transportation cost of low Sulphur diesel by almost hundred and twenty-one ($121) dollars per metric tonne from the current hundred and seventy ($170) dollars per metric tonne via road network to forty-nine ($49) dollars per metric tonne.
The minister further reveals that in 2021, government embarked on a programme to reform the petroleum sub-sector in order to improve efficiency and remove unnecessary costs.
He has since disclosed that his ministry has reached advanced stages in the completion of the Lusaka bulk fuel depot, which has a combined storage capacity of 102 million litres for petroleum products.
By Lovemore Sondashi
