Updated 12 November 2026
The official way to search the EPRA retail petroleum register in Kenya is to use the Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority’s public licence-register table, not a station poster 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 “Retail of Petroleum Products (Except LPG),” with the official description “Register of companies involved in the retail of petroleum products excluding LPG,” and a Download link that opens the public portal table.
On a count of all 7 official portal pages on 12 November 2026, the table printed “Showing 1-100 of 644 items.” on the first page and “Showing 601-644 of 644 items.” on the last page. Those 644 licence-number rows were all present, and all 644 licence numbers were unique. The Company Name column had 280 unique names: 232 names appeared once, and 48 names each appeared on more than one official row, including one official name on 152 rows. This guide does not paste the names. A later official register would supersede those counts.
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What the retail petroleum register is
The Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority keeps a public register of firms licensed for the retail of petroleum products except LPG, separate from the other official petroleum-register tables on the same Petroleum Registers page, including the retail-of-LPG-in-cylinders table and the import, storage, transport, bunkering and autogas 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 “Retail-Petroleum-Products-Except-Lpg.”
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 “Retail of Petroleum Products (except LPG),” with a lowercase “e” in “except.” That is typographically different from the Petroleum Registers page label, which uses “Except” with a capital “E.” 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 retail petroleum register in Kenya
To search the EPRA retail petroleum register in Kenya, open epra.go.ke/petroleum-registers and use the official Download link for “Retail of Petroleum Products (Except LPG).” That link opens the Authority’s public licence-register portal table. On 12 November 2026 the table ran to 7 official pages at 100 rows per page, with 44 rows on the last page.
You can sort the official columns, including the company name, the licence number, the premises town and the expiry date, and you can move through the printed pages. 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 retail petroleum 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 all 7 official pages of the Retail 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 retail petroleum register in Kenya on those pages. The official Showing line uses a hyphen with no spaces and a full stop after “items.” There is no thousands comma in “644.”
All 644 printed items were present as licence-number rows, and all 644 licence numbers were unique. 280 company names were unique: 232 names appeared once and 48 names each appeared on more than one official row, with a different licence number on each of those rows. Official multiplicity was not only doubles: among those 48 names, the highest official counts were 152, 85, 17, 15 and 10 rows for a single printed company name. 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: 5 digits on 341 rows and 4 digits on 303 rows.
Every official Category cell was printed “Retail of Petroleum Products (except LPG).” One Premises Town cell was blank; that row still had a company name, a licence number and an expiry date of 4 February 2027. None of the town cells was printed “(not set).” The other 643 rows had a town string, and there were 160 unique official town strings.
Nairobi appeared as “NAIROBI” on 53 rows, “Nairobi” on 47 rows and “nairobi” on 1 row. Other official typographical variants exist in the town column and are not listed here. All 644 expiry dates were filled: 172 rows expire in 2026 and 472 expire in 2027, across 93 official dates. The earliest official expiry in the snapshot was 12 November 2026, the same date as the count, 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 of LPG in cylinders, storage, transport or bunkering, 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 an LPG retail table or online clearance
Searching the EPRA retail petroleum register in Kenya tells you whether a firm and premises currently appear on the official retail-of-petroleum-products-except-LPG table. It does not tell you whether the same firm also appears on the official retail-of-LPG-in-cylinders table, which is a different row on the same Petroleum Registers page and a different official licence. It also does not tell you how to apply for an LPG retail licence, which is covered in the published LPG retail licence guide.
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, a row on the LPG retail table and an online clearance result are three different official questions.
What to do if the retailer 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 and look at more than the first page: this snapshot ran to 7 official pages. 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. Because one official Premises Town cell in this snapshot was blank, a search that relies only on town may miss a current row; search by company name or licence number as well.
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 retail petroleum register in Kenya: is this firm and premises on the current official table? It does not, on its own, approve a filling station, set a pump price or replace the online-clearance checks.
Frequently asked questions
Where is the official EPRA retail petroleum register in Kenya?
On the Petroleum Registers page at epra.go.ke/petroleum-registers, checked on 12 November 2026, under the official label “Retail of Petroleum Products (Except LPG).” The official Download link opens the public licence-register table, which ran to 7 pages in this snapshot.
How many retail petroleum licences are on the register?
On a count of all 7 official portal pages on 12 November 2026, there were 644 unique licence numbers and 280 unique company names. 48 company names each appeared on more than one official row. A later official register would supersede those counts.
Does this table also list retail LPG licences?
No. This table is the public register of current retail-of-petroleum-products-except-LPG licences. Retail of LPG in cylinders is a different official table on the same Petroleum Registers page.
Does a row here confirm EPRA online clearance?
No. The EPRA retail petroleum 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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