Legislation

In Kenya, Section 92 of the Petroleum Act, 2019 mandates the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority (EPRA) to monitor petroleum products offered for sale on the local market. Monitoring aims to prevent motor fuel adulteration or the dumping of export-bound fuels. Accordingly, the EPRA undertakes a program of continuous monitoring of the quality of petroleum motor fuels on sale, as well as in transport and storage, throughout the country.

Section 92(b) of the Petroleum Act, 2019, also states that a person who stores, transports or offers for sale adulterated petroleum products should be liable to a fine of not less than five million Kenyan shillings (about USD 38,000), or to a term of imprisonment of not less than two years, or both.