"His Excellency Jakaya M. Kikwete, now the President of Tanzania, was also given an award [for 'extraordinary contribution to the success of the Songo Songo project'] on the same occassion. Patrick Rutabanzibwa [the then PS of the ministry responsible for energy] said of him:
As Minister of Water, Energy and Minerals from 1990 to 1994 he guided the initial Project negotiations with Ocelot [one of the original sponsors of the Songo Songo gas-to-electricity project, which subsequently became PanAfrican Energy]. In 1994 he selected the original sponsor, Ocelot and TransCanada PipeLines, over their rival for the Project, Enron. Subsequent to that, as Minister for Finance in 1995 he gave crucial support to what was seen as an alien concept, that is providing payment and currency convertibility guarantees to private investors.
While we successfully drilled for natural gas, we also continued to invite oil companies to explore for petroleum in Tanzania" - Al Noor Kassum's 'Africa's Winds of Change: Memoirs of an International Tanzania' page 128.