{Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda have up to the end of January to find financiers of the $4 billion Hoima-Lokichar-Lamu crude oil pipeline after they settled on Toyota Tsusho Thursday as a consultant for the project.}<\/p>\n
Kenya’s Energy PS Joseph Njoroge said the crude oil pipeline \u2014 running 1,500km from Hoima near Uganda\u2019s Lake Albert to Kenya\u2019s Lamu port, and connecting to South Sudan at Lokichar \u2014 will be developed as a single project split into lots.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach country will carry out implementation in the area within their jurisdiction.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2018Uganda and Kenya will build the section of the lines within their boundaries,\u201d Mr Njoroge said in a statement released after the three states signed a deal to hire Toyota Tsusho as a consultant in Kampala Thursday.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cHowever, supervision of the construction will be by one agency (Toyota Tsusho) to maintain similar specifications.\u201d<\/p>\n
Experts have said the difficult terrain and waxy nature of East African crude, which calls for transportation by a heated pipeline, will stretch the cost initially estimated at $3 billion by a quarter.<\/p>\n
The pact with the Japanese engineering giant also binds the two implementing countries \u2014Kenya and Uganda \u2014 to ensure that the project is completed in 2017 to 2018 when both states are set to start exporting crude oil.<\/p>\n
The consultant will be required to finish the study within five months of the award (mid April).<\/p>\n
Toyota Tsusho was among eight firms that were prequalified for the tender. <\/p>\n
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