Zambia oil storage set to top 100m litres as new developments set to be completed.

Further evidence of the growing storage boom in Africa this week with the announcement in Zambia that construction work on a 15 million litre bulk fuel storage depot in the city of Solwezi will be completed in 2014. This is the latest development in a government led drive to construct oil storage facilities in all provincial centres including Lusaka and Mongu with a reported K200 million (€21.79 million) given for this development. Once these sites are completed further oil storage at Kasama and Chipata will be constructed. The construction of these facilities is being carried out by East African firm Dalbit International Limited. With these developments, Zambia’s bulk petroleum storage capacity has increased to 100 million litres.