Sun, 14 Dec 2008 14:33:00

Uganda: Bio-Diesel Refinery Opens

African Power Initiative (API), a local company currently running Jotropha plantation in Nakapiripirit district, has announced that the biodiesel refinery will be commissioned in April 2009 on the old Port Bell Road at Wankonko.

Marcos Bitew, Chief executive officer says that they currently have 2500 acres of jatropha locally known as “biroowa”. Yields will be processed into crude fuel and transported for refining in Kampala. The plan to grow Jotropha in Karamoja and to construct a bio diesel extraction in the sub region and refinery plant in Kampala will reduce Uganda's fuel shortages drastically. An acre of jatropha produces close to 5,000 litres of fuel...full article

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