The Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited was originally set up by Shell and the British Petroleum Company BP to serve the East African region in the supply of a wide variety of oil products. The Company was incorporated in 1960, under the name East African Oil Refineries Limited. The first refinery complex which has distillation, hydrotreating, catalytic reforming and bitumen production units was commissioned in 1963.  The second refinery train was commissioned in 1974 and also has distillation, hydrotreating and reforming units.