Several Australian companies have shown interest to invest in the country’s natural gas industry, says the Tanzania Investment Centre (TIC).The Mtwara Gas Pipeline is expected to be inaugurated later this month and the facility will enable the country to produce 2800MW of power by 2016. East Africa is now a new oil and gas frontier after a string of hydrocarbon discoveries, which producers hope to exploit to supply energy-hungry Asian.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd August 2015

NIGERIAN Muhammadu Buhari has assured investors his administration would implement reforms to boost accountability and transparency in the country’s oil and gas industry. Speaking at a meeting with senior officials of Chevron, the oil company, led by the company’s President for Africa and Latin America, Ali Moshiri, Buhari declared that his administration was ready to effectively address the myriad of challenges in the.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd August 2015

TULLOW, the leading independent oil exploration and production company, announced exports from the Jubilee Field to the Ghana Gas plant would resume next month. Exports at the Atuabo facility were suspended earlier this month due to technical issues with gas compression systems on the FPSO (Floating production storage and offloading) Kwame Nkrumah. Oil production is currently constrained to approximately 65 000 barrels of oil per day (bopd).... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 3rd August 2015

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has held a meeting with Total’s Exploration and Production Africa Division Vice President Jabier Rielo over the development of a crude oil pipeline ahead of production in 2018.   The meeting was also attended by the Minister for Energy and Mineral development Eng. Irene Muloni and the Permanent Secretary Ministry of Energy Mr. Kabagambe Kalisa.   Uganda is planning to a construct an oil.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 30th July 2015

 Block 12A joint venture partners Tullow Oil and Africa Oil have announced they will spud the Cheptuket exploration well in October to test a basin bounding structural closure in the Kerio Valley Basin in a similar structural setting to the successful Ngamia and Amosing discoveries.   The Cheptuket well formerly refered to as Lekep-A is located in Elgeyo Marakwet county in Kenya’s Rift Valley where the oil firms had already.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 30th July 2015

 Kenya and Uganda could start producing oil three and a half years after project sanction expected by the end of 2016 according to the latest half year results by the company.   According to the report the company expects to have drilled 200 to 300 wells in phases in Kenya almost of those to be drilled in neighboring Uganda where the company targets 500 wells.   Currently the development initially targets the South Lokichar.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 30th July 2015

The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) will on July 29 start trial tests on a new 542-kilometre long pipeline from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam for between 40 and 60 days.   The pipeline is expected to deliver higher volumes of natural gas for power generation and other applications.   Exploration firms have discovered about 55.1 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in offshore and onshore southern.... Read more »

Posted on : Wednesday , 29th July 2015

 Kenya Pipeline Company has secured a $350million loan to invest in the construction of a new 450-kilometre oil pipeline in Kenya from Mombasa to Nairobi. The state owned oil dispenser will move ahead to a 20 inch contemporary multi-product oil pipeline in Kenya to reinstate the more than 30 year old – 14 inch pipeline currently in use. For the duration of the signing of the loan with a group of six banks, KPC acting managing.... Read more »

Posted on : Monday , 27th July 2015

 The government of Tanzania through its Ministry of Energy and Minerals has assured oil and gas stakeholders especially those engaged in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that the Local Content Policy (LCP) is in its final stages before being implemented. Neema Lugangira Apson, a Senior Supplies Officer in the ministry responsible for Local Content (LC) said in Dar es Salaam last week that once the merging of the National Energy Policy.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 24th July 2015

 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has said that ongoing infrastructure work in Tanzania will see the country become a hub within the global LNG industry   A report by the professional services firm said Tanzania could become a leading exporter of liquefied natural gas by 2025, supplying markets such as Pakistan, Spain, Chile and China.   With transport and utilities infrastructure projects worth US$19bn already in the pipeline,.... Read more »

Posted on : Friday , 24th July 2015

 West African energy development company Gasol plc has entered a strategic partnership with Switzerland-based African Iron Ore Group Limited (AIOG) to provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) for mining projects in western Africa   AIOG will supply provide liquefied natural gas (LNG) for mining projects in Western Africa.   AIOG is currently developing iron ore projects in central and west Africa, focusing on the region's.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 23rd July 2015

 Italy’s gas largest gas explorer Eni has reported a gas discovery in Egypt Nile Delta Abu Madi West which is located 120 Kilometres in the Northwest of Alexandria in Egypt. According to the company the preliminary reports estimate that the gas discovery in Egypt has the potential of producing up to 15B cubic metres of gas at a time with upside and also at an associated condensates. The announced discovery was made by the Nidoco NW2.... Read more »

Posted on : Thursday , 23rd July 2015