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Concrete pouring has been completed at the 2,115MW Julius Nyerere dam project on the Rufiji river. The dam’s construction started in 2018 and is now due to be completed in 2024, rather than its earlier mid-2022 deadline.

According to energy minister January Makamba, the host government agreement (HGA) for the $30bn Lindi LNG project is expected to be completed by December.

Aqua Power in late July lost a legal challenge to the award of an engineering, procurement and construction contract for the 185MW Kinyerezi I gas power plant to CSI Energy Group (Tanzania). The contract was awarded by Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (Tanesco) in November 2020.

Initial works on the 2,000km Tanzania-Zambia Refined Oils Pipeline project have started. The new pipeline will take products from Dar Es Salaam to the mineral-rich northwest of Zambia near the Angola border.

Wentworth Resources’ buy into the Ruvuma PSA is another expression of heightened corporate interest in the Tanzanian upstream, which has been buoyed up by President Samia’s investor-friendly message and the progress made to make Shell and Equinor’ estimated $30bn Lindi LNG project a reality, writes James Gavin

Petrodel Resources representatives are expected in Dodoma in the coming weeks to meet with state Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) and the Ministry of Energy. The company caused some surprise on 25 May when it issued a statement saying it planned to invest $100m across three licence areas, with $80m earmarked for Tanga to meet first well commitments and $20m for Kimbiji and Latham, to bring them into production by 2025.

Dutch development finance institution FMO has signed a $15m senior loan for African and India-focused off-grid provider D.Light Design, with $5m from the Building Prospects envelope and a $10m FMO-A loan. The majority of the loan is denominated in local currency, comprising Nigerian naira and Kenyan shillings.

A High Court hearing on 21 June marked the latest stage in a long-running dispute over efforts by Tanzania Electricity Supply Company (Tanesco) to replace Jacobsen Elektro as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for the expansion of the 185MW Kinyerezi I gas power plant.

AIM-listed Wentworth Resources is to acquire a 25% stake in Tanzania’s Ruvuma production-sharing agreement from Scirocco Energy for up to $16m, in a deal which covers the 1.9tcf Ntorya gas discovery on which a final investment decision is expected in 2023.

An initial agreement for the $30bn Lindi liquified natural gas project, comprising a major deep offshore development and construction of a large LNG plant, was signed on 11 June. This is not the much-anticipated host government agreement, which project sources told African Energy is expected by year-end

While advocacy groups are posing questions about the funding of the Lake Albert upstream scheme – and putting pressure on banks not to participate  – operator TotalEnergies on 9 June told African Energy that project financing for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) was being provided by shareholder equity and external debt, which is “being arranged with interested international financial institutions”.

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) project has emerged as an important element in French NGO Reclaim Finance (RF)’s campaign against the financing of oil and gas projects. RF campaign manager Guillaume Pottier told African Energy that the group was aiming “to ensure financial institutions no longer directly or indirectly support the development of new oil and gas”.

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline has boosted regional energy ambitions and is poised to swell the treasuries of Tanzania and Uganda, but while the project’s supporters laud its potential economic and developmental benefits it has also ignited a fierce debate over hydrocarbons financing and how deals are structured in the energy transition age.

Hotel group Mango Tree Beach has installed solar PV plants with a combined capacity of 1MWp at three of its four hotels in Zanzibar.

Solar and wind independent power producers (IPPs) spoken to by African Energy are optimistic about the progress of power purchase agreement (PPA) negotiations which got under way with the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) in April.