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Issue 207 - 16 April 2011

Ewura nears Songas tariff offer

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Songas and the Energy and Water Utilities Regulatory Authority (Ewura) have approved a tariff methodology for the proposed doubling of Songo Songo output to 140mcf/d. An Ewura spokesman told African Energy the methodology, accounting for Songas’ operation and maintenance expenditure and taxes among other costs, will provide the framework on which Ewura’s tariff offer for Songas’ increased output will be based.

Tanzania
Issue 206 - 02 April 2011

Petrodel brings in Afren on Tanga

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Afren has acquired a 74% operated interest in the offshore Tanga Block from Isle of Man-based Petrodel Resources. The block is directly south of Afren’s Kenyan blocks L17 and L18. Petrodel will retain 26% and Afren will reimburse a percentage of past costs, as well as funding a new 900km 2D survey and a shallow water exploration well, up to a total of $40m.

Tanzania
Issue 205 - 18 March 2011

TANZANIA – HYDROPOWER

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Stiegler’s Gorge. 2,100MW. Long-delayed 3X700MW turbine Rufiji River project. First turbine installation, 2012. Full commissioning, 2015. Could make Tanzania net exporter

Tanzania
Issue 205 - 18 March 2011

TANZANIA – POLICY

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Supply/Demand. Tanzania is in urgent need of new generating capacity. Demand is growing at 10-15%/yr and generation suffers from drought.

Tanzania
Issue 205 - 18 March 2011

TANZANIA – THERMAL

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Songo Songo GTP. 190MW. Developed by Globeleq subsidiary Songas. Turbines supplied by GE. Production of 90mcf/d uprated to 140mcf/d.

Tanzania
Issue 205 - 18 March 2011

Grid contract with CMEC

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The government has agreed a $665m contract with China National Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation (CMEC) to build some 1,150km

Tanzania
Issue 205 - 18 March 2011

TANZANIA - TRANSMISSION/DISTRIBUTION

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Overview. Government has $500m of financing from DFIs for upgrading and expansion of transmission and distribution infrastructure. $8bn-worth of investment needed to meet 2031's forecast demand of 4,700MW. The north is experiencing rapid demand growth of 8-10%/yr mainly due to mining growth and existing infrastructure

Tanzania
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Power barge heads for Luanda; Official confident on Lom Pangar HEP despite lack of funds; Songo Songo expansion waits on tariffs, financing; Share placing for South African start-up

Cameroon | Angola | Tanzania | South Africa
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Despite gloomy predictions of recession, exploration has been buoyed by the high oil price and by Asian demand for gas. East Africa has arrived as a significant hydrocarbons industry play, writes Thalia Griffiths in Kampala

Kenya | Mozambique | Uganda | Tanzania
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The $50m-100m private sector African Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) has launched its Renewable Energy and Adaptation to Climate Technologies (React) programme, offering grants and interest-free loans of around $250,000-1.5m for local and international investments in East African Community (EAC) countries.

Kenya | Uganda | Rwanda | Tanzania | Burundi
Issue 202 - 04 February 2011

Engen buys Chevron Tanzania assets

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South Africa-based Engen Petroleum formally acquired Chevron’s interests in Tanzania on 1 February, under one of seven agreements to take over downstream interests in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.

Tanzania | Réunion
Issue 202 - 04 February 2011

Tanzania to license ultra-deep

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Tanzania plans onshore and offshore bid rounds this year, offering acreage beyond existing deep-water blocks. The fourth offshore round, which Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) hopes to launch at the AAPG conference in Houston in April,

Tanzania
Issue 200 - 17 December 2010

Tanesco fined in Dowans saga

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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has ordered Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (Tanesco) to pay Dowans Holdings some $125m for breaching its power supply contract

Tanzania
Issue 200 - 17 December 2010

Ophir, BG well discovers gas

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BG Group announced on 1 December that its second Tanzanian exploration well, Chewa-1, had also discovered gas

Tanzania
Issue 200 - 17 December 2010

Dry well for M&P

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Dominion Petroleum has announced that the Kianika-1 well on the Mandawa production-sharing agreement has reached a planned depth of 3,040 metres

Tanzania