Updated 12 November 2026
The official way to search the EPRA petroleum wholesale register in Kenya is to use the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority’s public licence-register table, not a depot notice or a social-media certificate post. On 12 November 2026 that table was linked from the Authority’s Petroleum Registers page at epra.go.ke/petroleum-registers. The official row is labelled “Import, Export and Wholesale of Petroleum Products (Except LPG),” with the official description “Comprehensive register of companies handling import, export, and wholesale of petroleum products excluding LPG,” and a Download link that opens the public portal table.
On a count of the official portal page on 12 November 2026, the table printed “Showing 1-100 of 100 items.” Those 100 licence-number rows were all present, and all 100 licence numbers were unique. The Company Name column had 99 unique names: 98 names appeared once, and 1 official name appeared on 2 official rows. This guide does not paste the names. A later official register would supersede those counts.
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What the petroleum wholesale register is
The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority keeps a public register of firms licensed for the import, export and wholesale of petroleum products except LPG, separate from the other official petroleum-register tables on the same Petroleum Registers page, including the retail and storage tables for petroleum products except LPG, the Jet A1 export-and-wholesale table, and the LPG retail, autogas, storage and transport tables. It is also separate from the electricity, solar-photovoltaic and energy-auditor registers on the wider EPRA portal. The portal page title on 12 November 2026 was “Import-Export-Wholesale-Petroleum-Products.”
The official table, checked that day, uses the columns Company Name, Licence Number, Premises Town, Category and Expiry Date, in that order. Every official Category cell in this snapshot was printed “Import, Export and Wholesale of Petroleum Products (Except LPG).” This is a premises-level official table: the same company name can appear on more than one row, each with its own licence number and premises town. This guide does not paste company names.
How to search the EPRA petroleum wholesale register in Kenya
To search the EPRA petroleum wholesale register in Kenya, open epra.go.ke/petroleum-registers and use the official Download link for “Import, Export and Wholesale of Petroleum Products (Except LPG).” That link opens the Authority’s public licence-register portal table. On 12 November 2026 the official Showing line covered all 100 items on a single page.
You can sort the official columns, including the company name, the licence number, the premises town and the expiry date. Use the live table rather than a downloaded snapshot if you need the current row.
The same portal menu also includes a Verify Licence link. This guide does not treat a verification result as a substitute for the public petroleum wholesale table counted on 12 November 2026, and it does not invent a result from a form that was not submitted.
What the November 2026 count includes, and what it omits
The counts below are from the official Import, Export and Wholesale of Petroleum Products (Except LPG) table, as served on 12 November 2026, not from a media republication and not from a Business Radar tool. They are the current official snapshot of the EPRA petroleum wholesale register in Kenya on that page. The official Showing line uses a hyphen with no spaces and a full stop after “items.” There is no thousands comma in “100.”
All 100 printed items were present as licence-number rows, and all 100 licence numbers were unique. 99 company names were unique: 98 names appeared once and 1 official name appeared on 2 official rows, with a different licence number on each of those rows. No company-name cell was blank. Official licence-number typography used an EPRA/PET/ prefix on every row, but the official digit string after that prefix was not of one length: 4 digits on 63 rows and 5 digits on 37 rows.
Every official Category cell was printed “Import, Export and Wholesale of Petroleum Products (Except LPG).” No Premises Town cell was blank, and none was printed “(not set).” There were 18 unique official town strings. Nairobi appeared as “Nairobi” on 62 rows and “NAIROBI” on 15 rows. Other official typographical variants exist in the town column and are not listed here. All 100 expiry dates were filled: 6 rows expire in 2026 and 94 expire in 2027, across 50 official dates. The earliest official expiry in the snapshot was 28 November 2026, and the latest was 4 November 2027.
This snapshot does not include a count of the other official petroleum-register tables on the same page, including retail or storage of petroleum products except LPG, the Jet A1 export-and-wholesale table, or any LPG table, and it is not a count of EPRA’s electricity or solar-photovoltaic registers. Do not treat a missing search result as proof that a later official row does not exist; search again on the live register.
How this sits with retail, storage or Jet A1 tables
Searching the EPRA petroleum wholesale register in Kenya tells you whether a firm and premises currently appear on the official import-export-and-wholesale-of-petroleum-products-except-LPG table. It does not tell you whether the same firm also appears on the official retail or storage tables for petroleum products except LPG, or on the official Jet A1 export-and-wholesale table. Those are different rows on the same Petroleum Registers page and different official licences.
It also does not tell you whether an import or other petroleum consignment has been cleared through EPRA’s online clearance system. That is a different official process, covered in the published EPRA online clearance guide. A current row on this register and an online clearance result are two different official questions.
What to do if the firm is missing
If the company name, premises town or licence number you were given does not appear in the official table, check the exact spelling, including official typographical variants in the town column. This snapshot fitted on one official page, so a missing name is not explained by a later page of the same table. A later official row would supersede the 12 November 2026 count. If a certificate quotes a licence number with a different number of digits after the EPRA/PET/ prefix, search the live table anyway; official digit strings in this snapshot were either four or five digits.
When you write, include the exact name as printed on the certificate, the licence number, the premises town, the date you searched, and a copy of the document you were shown. The register answers a narrow question about the EPRA petroleum wholesale register in Kenya: is this firm and premises on the current official table? It does not, on its own, approve an import, set a wholesale price or replace the online-clearance checks.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the official EPRA petroleum wholesale register in Kenya?
On the Petroleum Registers page at epra.go.ke/petroleum-registers, checked on 12 November 2026, under the official label “Import, Export and Wholesale of Petroleum Products (Except LPG).” The official Download link opens the public licence-register table, which fitted on one official page in this snapshot.
How many petroleum wholesale licences are on the register?
On a count of the official portal page on 12 November 2026, there were 100 unique licence numbers and 99 unique company names. 1 official company name appeared on 2 official rows. A later official register would supersede those counts.
Does this table also list retail petrol stations or Jet A1 licences?
No. This table is the public register of current import-export-and-wholesale-of-petroleum-products-except-LPG licences. Retail of petroleum products except LPG, storage of those products, and export and wholesale of Jet A1 are different official tables on the same Petroleum Registers page.
Does a row here confirm EPRA online clearance?
No. The EPRA petroleum wholesale register in Kenya does not record whether an import or consignment has been cleared online. Use the published EPRA online clearance guide when that question matters.
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