{"id":11099,"date":"2021-11-09T10:29:27","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T10:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=11099"},"modified":"2021-11-09T10:29:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T10:29:27","slug":"tanzania-hopes-for-fid-on-its-offshore-lng-projects-as-discussions-with-iocs-commence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tanzania-hopes-for-fid-on-its-offshore-lng-projects-as-discussions-with-iocs-commence\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania Hopes for FID on its Offshore LNG Projects as Discussions with IOCs Commence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania through its Minister for Energy January Makamba has reported that the government has started negotiations for the $30bn Tanzania LNG project with international oil companies including and Shell, Equinor, Pavillion, ExxonMobil na Ophir.<\/p>\n<p>The IOCs stalled the development of their assets under former Tanzanian President John Maghufuli with the new President Samia Suluhu calling for resumption of negotiations with the companies in May.<\/p>\n<p>Former Minister for Energy Medard Kalemani had thereafter said he hoped to conclude negotiations for a host government agreement and review production sharing agreements by the end of June 2022.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, I kicked-off negotiations for the $30bn Tanzania LNG project. The project will transform our economy. For the past two months, we\u2019ve worked hard behind the scenes to get here. We\u2019re confident that a Final Investment Decision will come sooner than is traditionally the case. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gjAEtY3HYt\">pic.twitter.com\/gjAEtY3HYt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 January Makamba (@JMakamba) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMakamba\/status\/1457668899378536453?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The discussions are focussed at discussing among others a proposed two-train onshore LNG plant to export gas. Tanzania holds about 50 trillion cubic feet of gas offshore in offshore blocks 1, 2 and 4<\/p>\n<p>Between them, Shell and Equinor have discovered about 50 trillion cubic feet of gas in offshore blocks 1, 2 and 4.<\/p>\n<p>Other partners in the projects include Singapore\u2019s Pavilion Energy and Medco Energi of Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanzania through its Minister for Energy January Makamba has reported that the government has started negotiations for the $30bn Tanzania LNG project with international oil companies including and Shell, Equinor, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tanzania-hopes-for-fid-on-its-offshore-lng-projects-as-discussions-with-iocs-commence\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,7443,11],"tags":[253,271,282,7135,860,9743,1428,9742,1925,1979,9741,2297,2466],"class_list":["post-11099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-eastern-africa","category-top-news","tag-block-1","tag-block-2","tag-block-4","tag-equinor","tag-exxonmobil","tag-january-makamba","tag-lng","tag-medco-energi","tag-ophir","tag-pavilion-energy","tag-pavillion","tag-shell","tag-tanzania","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/tanzania-lindi-gas-plant.gif?fit=777%2C437&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-2T1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12342,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/tanzania-the-signing-of-initial-lng-framework-agreement-will-open-african-gas-markets\/","url_meta":{"origin":11099,"position":0},"title":"TANZANIA: The Signing of Initial LNG Framework Agreement will Open African Gas Markets","author":"","date":"June 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Tanzania has made history with the signing of the initial Host Government Agreement (HGA) for the country\u2019s $30 billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project. 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