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Surging prices for wheat, oil and other commodities are placing strain on individuals, businesses and governments, with an increasing number of sub-Saharan countries now classed as ‘debt-stressed’. Defaults may be avoided this year, but ‘food riots’ could flare up. Yet commodity exporters may profit as the energy transition and geopolitical shifts present opportunities for everything from natural gas to transition minerals, writes Marc Howard, with African Energy staff.

Italy’s Studio Pietrangeli has been contracted by Research Triangle Institute (RTI) to carry out the feasibility, conceptual design and tender design for the Tanzania–Malawi interconnector project.

Negotiations between the government and international oil companies (IOCs), including Equinor and partners Shell and ExxonMobil, for a host government agreement (HGA) to underpin the $30bn Lindi liquified natural gas (LNG) project are proceeding on schedule, with an agreement expected by the end of May.

Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) has invited bids to construct solar PV-diesel hybrid power plants in Inyonga and Liliondo.

Tanzania’s Auditor General has criticised the procurement of a major contractor at the Rusumo Falls, blaming the World Bank Group for the deviation.

A major project to build a 280km 400kV transmission line from Nyakanazi to Kigoma is significantly behind schedule, Tanzania’s Auditor General reports.

In a further sign of the renewed momentum in the oil and gas sector, another Tanzania-focused independent has announced increased output. 

Aminex has struck a deal with neighbouring operator Pan African Energy Tanzania (PAET) to provide high-resolution 3D seismic data for part of the Kiliwani North Development Licence (KNDL).

Ruvuma production-sharing agreement (PSA) operator ARA Petroleum Tanzania (APT) ia aiming to spud the Chikumbi-1 well in November.

After years of stalled plans, negotiations for a large liquified natural gas export plant at Lindi are ‘proceeding well’, as President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s reforming administration turns heads with investor-friendly pledges. Her government had reconvened talks with Shell, Equinor and ExxonMobil even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine forced a reassessment of global gas supply options, write Jon Marks and African Energy staff.

European leaders are confronting the urgent need to diversify energy supplies away from Russia, while also somehow keeping to their commitments to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050, that they made – indeed pioneered – at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, just four months ago.  African Energy examines the options and projects under discussion including gas and electricity imports and hydrogen prospects.

Utility Electricidade de Moçambique (EdM) is preparing a feasibility study to interconnect its grid with Tanzania. EdM director of electrification and projects Daniel Guambe said the project should contribute to the expansion of the Mozambican transmission network’s backbone.

The final investment decision on TotalEnergies’ Lake Albert development – combining the  Tilenga-Kingfisher upstream oil project in Uganda and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Eacop) taking oil for export from Tanzania comes as a major boost for East Africa’s energy ambitions and ends a long wait for the host governments eager to capture substantial new revenue inflows

Two exploration groups have announced progress with seismic data acquisition campaigns in the Rovuma and Rukwa basins, ahead of potential natural gas and helium drilling campaigns in 2022.

Tanzania is playing catch up with plans to develop its liquified natural gas (LNG) potential as negotiations start with Shell and Equinor on a host government agreement (HGA) on 9 November for the $30bn Lindi LNG scheme. The talks cover proposals for a two-train onshore project.