Intelligent Pipeline Pigging

The pumping units used to pump petroleum products to Zambia were the same ones installed at the company’s inception in 1968.However; they were too old to continue providing a reliable service because the status of the engines had deteriorated thereby becoming a cost to repair because their spares had become very difficult to source.

 In view of this, TAZAMA management embarked on an exercise to replace all the 28 units i.e. four (4) per station. This project was phased to tackle one station at a time, in view of the high costs involved of approximately US$5.5 million per station. Consequently, TAZAMA Pipelines Limited spent 37 million US dollars to replace old pumps at seven stations along the pipeline, which runs from Dar-es-Salaam to Ndola.