{"id":249500,"date":"2026-11-09T16:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-fuel-leak-in-tassia-after-contractor-drills-into-mombasa-nairobi-pipeline\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:30:18","slug":"kenya-fuel-leak-in-tassia-after-contractor-drills-into-mombasa-nairobi-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-fuel-leak-in-tassia-after-contractor-drills-into-mombasa-nairobi-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Fuel Leak in Tassia After Contractor Drills Into Mombasa-Nairobi Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has shut down a section of its Mombasa-Nairobi petroleum pipeline after it was punctured during drilling works near Tassia, off Outer Ring Road in Embakasi, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The incident, which occurred at about 9am on Monday, November 9, involved Line 5, which transports petroleum products from the coastal city to Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">KPC said the damage was caused by a contractor undertaking geotechnical survey and drilling works on behalf of the Kenya Railways&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611090421.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Pipeline Company (KPC) has shut down a section of its Mombasa-Nairobi petroleum pipeline after it was punctured during drilling works near Tassia, off Outer Ring Road in Embakasi, Nairobi. The incident, which occurred at about 9am on Monday, November 9, involved Line 5, which transports petroleum products from the coastal city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":249501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,14771,14501,7570,4688,430,17978,16254,257,6773,254,55802],"class_list":["post-249500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-contractor","tag-drills","tag-fuel","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-leak","tag-mombasanairobi","tag-news","tag-pipeline","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tassia"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}