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[h=1]Tanzania talks with Total, BP on hydrocarbon exploration[/h]Sat Oct 25, 2014 8:06am GMT
DAR ES SALAAM Oct 25 (Reuters) - Tanzania has held talks with France's Total and Britain's BP over oil and gas exploration, its energy ministry said on Saturday, aiming to add to major companies active in its thriving energy sector.
Companies already present in the east African state include Norway's Statoil, Brazil's Petrobras, Royal Dutch Shell , BG Group and Exxon Mobil..
Total executives were in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam this week with Energy and Minerals Minister Sospeter Muhongo, the ministry said.
"Total has expressed interest to explore for gas and oil in the Lake Eyasi (open acreage area)," Muhongo said in a statement.
"We welcome competition and we would like many companies to participate in this sector," he added.
Muhongo has also held separate talks with BP officials, though he did not give details about when those talks were held.
In May, China's state-run offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd and Russian gas producer Gazprom also submitted bids for four of the eight oil and gas blocks Tanzania offered in its fourth offshore licensing round.
East Africa is a new hot spot for energy companies after substantial deposits of crude oil were found in Uganda and major natural gas reserves were discovered off the coasts of Tanzania and Mozambique.
Tanzania estimates it has up to 53.2 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of recoverable natural gas resources off of its southern coast, up from an earlier estimate of 46.5 tcf. (Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; Editing by Edith Honan and William Hardy)
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[h=1]Tanzania talks with Total, BP on hydrocarbon exploration[/h]Sat Oct 25, 2014 8:06am GMT
DAR ES SALAAM Oct 25 (Reuters) - Tanzania has held talks with France's Total and Britain's BP over oil and gas exploration, its energy ministry said on Saturday, aiming to add to major companies active in its thriving energy sector.
Companies already present in the east African state include Norway's Statoil, Brazil's Petrobras, Royal Dutch Shell , BG Group and Exxon Mobil..
Total executives were in Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam this week with Energy and Minerals Minister Sospeter Muhongo, the ministry said.
"Total has expressed interest to explore for gas and oil in the Lake Eyasi (open acreage area)," Muhongo said in a statement.
"We welcome competition and we would like many companies to participate in this sector," he added.
Muhongo has also held separate talks with BP officials, though he did not give details about when those talks were held.
In May, China's state-run offshore oil and gas producer CNOOC Ltd and Russian gas producer Gazprom also submitted bids for four of the eight oil and gas blocks Tanzania offered in its fourth offshore licensing round.
East Africa is a new hot spot for energy companies after substantial deposits of crude oil were found in Uganda and major natural gas reserves were discovered off the coasts of Tanzania and Mozambique.
Tanzania estimates it has up to 53.2 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of recoverable natural gas resources off of its southern coast, up from an earlier estimate of 46.5 tcf. (Reporting by Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala; Editing by Edith Honan and William Hardy)
© Thomson Reuters 2014. All rights reserved. Users may download and print extracts of content from this website for their own personal and non-commercial use only. Republication or redistribution of Thomson Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters and its logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of the Thomson Reuters group of companies around the world.
Thomson Reuters journalists are subject to an Editorial Handbook which requires fair presentation and disclosure of relevant interests.
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