{"id":1208,"date":"2014-06-12T13:57:17","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T10:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2015-09-09T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T10:09:46","slug":"nairobi-gets-its-first-oil-industry-dedicated-office-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/nairobi-gets-its-first-oil-industry-dedicated-office-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Nairobi gets its first oil industry dedicated office building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil companies in Kenya can now share an office block following the launch of the Nexgen Petro center by the principal secretary for energy yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The Petro Center developed by the Nextgen Offfice Suites Developers ltd\u00a0is part of an integrated development that also has a mall and park with the latter consisting of 3 residential towers of 10 stories.<\/p>\n<p>The Nexgen Petro center targets global petroleum companies trading in LPG, Lubricants, Fuel, PetrolStation Equipment Suppliers, Polymer and other related trading activities in the country offering them a central location near Nairobi\u2019s CBD and its environs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis exclusive Petro Centre ensures that both national and international companies from this integrated infrastructure, all under one roof in terms of combined resources and streamlined processes and for better interactions within the industry and in the best interests of the COMESA region,\u201d read a statement from the developers.<\/p>\n<p>Nextgen Petro Centre, centrally and ideally located within the capital city\u2019s main CBD, will have easy access to\u00a0town and industrial area, prominent banks, Nyayo House. Government offices like KEBS, NEMA, National Oil Corporation of Kenya and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) upcoming office building\u00a0are behind the proposed Nextgen Petro Centre, a stone\u2019s throw away.<\/p>\n<p>The building\u00a0has 3 full floors within the Mall available on the 4<sup>th<\/sup>, 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Floor, total of appx. 200,000 sq.ft of modular office spaces for exclusive use for the Petro Centre. The building can provide up to 70 parking slots designated for Petro Centre\u2019s executives\u2019 exclusive use.<\/p>\n<p>NextGen Petro Centre the concept is the brain child of the exclusive marketing agent Shash Marketing Ltd has\u00a0a further facility of 400 car parks for common use. There is also provision for a Data Centre to facilitate all the companies\u2019 ICT and data security needs in a centralized location,<\/p>\n<p>To take advantage of the proximity of work and living arrangements, the developer\u00a0also has apartments available to offer to the Petro Centre\u2019s executives in the 10-story Sapphire Tower of 1, 2 and 3BR with a\u00a0centralized LPG supply to the apartments.<\/p>\n<p>The developer says they are already in talks with various multinational petroleum companies from the region as well as those from the Middle and Far East, India for occupancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global oil companies in Kenya can now share an office block following the launch of the Nexgen Petro center by the principal secretary for energy yesterday. The Petro Center developed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/nairobi-gets-its-first-oil-industry-dedicated-office-building\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[929,1013,1252,1458,1462,1668,1731,1856,1995,2005,2020,2060],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news","tag-fuel","tag-global-oil-companies","tag-kenya","tag-lpg","tag-lubricants","tag-nairobi","tag-nexgen-petro-center","tag-oil-companies","tag-petro-center","tag-petroleum-companies","tag-petrolstation-equipment-suppliers","tag-polymer","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/nexgen.jpg?fit=1484%2C625&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-ju","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":937,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/east-africa-oil-and-gas-expo-kicks-off-in-nairobi\/","url_meta":{"origin":1208,"position":0},"title":"East Africa Oil and Gas expo 2014 kicks off in Nairobi","author":"Samuel Kamau Mbote","date":"April 27, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The East Africa Oil and Gas international trade fair has kicked off in Nairobi bringing together exhibitors including leading oil, gas and petroleum companies as well as assisting service players from around the world. 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