Use Petroleum to Strengthen Regions Infinite Resources for Jobs and Wealth – President Museveni

President Yoweri Museveni has cautioned the region not to be intoxicated with petroleum as this is an exhaustible resource but urged stakeholders to use it to build the infinite resources … Read More

Orca Exploration Receives Government approval of Additional Gas Plan 2 from the Songo Songo Field

Orca Exploration Group has announced the approval of the Second Additional Gas Plan (AGP-2) by the Government of Tanzania, more than doubling the available volume of Additional Gas for sale … Read More

TPDC To Carry out Feasibility Study on Regional Natural Gas Distribution

The Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation has said it intends to run a feasibility study of the construction of the infrastructure as well as conducting studies of the natural gas markets and … Read More

Tembo-1 Appraisal well Drilling planned for in 2018

Rovuma onshore block operator Wentworth Resources has said it plans to drill Tembo-1 appraisal well in 2018 in the latest operational update. According to Wentworth Resources the reprocessing of approx. … Read More

Statoil, Exxon Mobil discover an additional 1.2TCF in Giligiliani-1 well offshore Tanzania

Statoil and co-venturer Exxon Mobil have announced that the Giligiliani-1 exploration well has resulted in a new natural gas discovery offshore Tanzania. The discovery of an additional 1.2 trillion cubic … Read More

Mnazi Bay licence partners sign GSA with Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation

Maurel & Prom has said that, along with Mnazi Bay licence partners Wentworth and Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC), it has signed a gas sales and purchase agreement with TPDC for the … Read More

Algeria’s Sonatrach eyes Tanzania and Mozambique for oil and gas exploration

Algeria’s state energy group Sonatrach is reported to be in talks with two Eastern Africa countries as the northern African state owned giant seeks to expand its exploration activities to … Read More

Factfile: Songo Songo Gas Development and Power-Generation Project, Tanzania

The Songo Songo gas field is located on and offshore Songo Songo island, about 15km from the Tanzanian mainland and 200km south of the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. The … Read More