WATCH: Oil explorations & projects in Tanzania
WATCH: Oil explorations & projects in Tanzania
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Mag3
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1. Could L.A. (The City of Angels) , California provide the missing link ?
2. How about UDSM in the early 1970 - incidence, coincidence or action ?
3. Je, yawezekana hapa kuna mkono wa CCM ?
Mag3
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Kwanza hakuna kampuni ya Noor Oil Industrial Technology Ltd ya Qatar. Pili hii kampuni ya Tanzania Green Co inamilikiwa na nani na ina uhusiano gani na CCM ? Angalieni hii website:-
Tanzania Green Co., Ltd. - Licenced Master Dealer for minerals, Diamonds and Precious Stones
In 2007 Manji, CEO of Quality Group Limited company ran what was known as Lotto Kitita lottery using a lottery licence issued to Gaming Management Tanzania Limited (GAMAT). The GAMAT company was owned by the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzis investments arm, Tanzania Green Company Limited. At the time of its initial registration in 2003, the shareholders of GAMAT on behalf of the ruling party were listed as Yusuf Mushi, Dr Harrison Mwakyembe and Salome Mbatia.
But then Tanzania Green Company was listed as among companies set to build the controversial pipeline project. Others were Noor Oil Industrial Technology Company of Qatar, Stroystrangas Public Corporation and ZakneFlegas-Prometery both of Russia and Roneg Tag of Germany.
Je yawezekana hizi kampuni zinazotajwa zote ni kampuni hewa ? trillioni nne - duh !
Tanzania Green Co., Ltd. - Licenced Master Dealer for minerals, Diamonds and Precious Stones
In 2007 Manji, CEO of Quality Group Limited company ran what was known as Lotto Kitita lottery using a lottery licence issued to Gaming Management Tanzania Limited (GAMAT). The GAMAT company was owned by the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzis investments arm, Tanzania Green Company Limited. At the time of its initial registration in 2003, the shareholders of GAMAT on behalf of the ruling party were listed as Yusuf Mushi, Dr Harrison Mwakyembe and Salome Mbatia.
But then Tanzania Green Company was listed as among companies set to build the controversial pipeline project. Others were Noor Oil Industrial Technology Company of Qatar, Stroystrangas Public Corporation and ZakneFlegas-Prometery both of Russia and Roneg Tag of Germany.
Je yawezekana hizi kampuni zinazotajwa zote ni kampuni hewa ? trillioni nne - duh !
Mabibi na Mabwana, Baada ya Richmond kushitukiwa Kunna tender nyingine ya Tanesco ya kununua 100MW, kwa habari nilizopata leo hii kuna hii Kampuni ya Noor Oil (Asian origin hii makao yao yako California na wana branch hapa Dubai), watapewa hii Tender ya kuleta 100MW kwa Gharama ya $120,000,000.00 ($120 million)= Tshs 156 billion, Dr Idrisa na Wengine tayari wamewekwa tayari kutetea huu wizi. Maana gharama halisi ya huu mtambo ni $50-60million mpaka kusimikwa na kuwashwa.
Noor Oil watanunua $50-60million toka (RRI) kampuni ya uko Marekani ambayo ina branch pia hapa Dubai, Noor Oil wataiuzia Tanesco kwa $120 million. $60 zitagawanywa kwa akina Idrisa/Mkuu wa Kaya/Waziri, na wengine watakaopiga debe kutetea huo wizi. Kaeni Mkao wa kuona mengi mwaka huu.
Kutoka kwenye vyanzo vyangu vya habari NOOR OIL ni kampuni yenye ubia na Richmond 100%.
Noor Oil watanunua $50-60million toka (RRI) kampuni ya uko Marekani ambayo ina branch pia hapa Dubai, Noor Oil wataiuzia Tanesco kwa $120 million. $60 zitagawanywa kwa akina Idrisa/Mkuu wa Kaya/Waziri, na wengine watakaopiga debe kutetea huo wizi. Kaeni Mkao wa kuona mengi mwaka huu.
Kutoka kwenye vyanzo vyangu vya habari NOOR OIL ni kampuni yenye ubia na Richmond 100%.
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Ni kutafuta hela za kampeni kumrudisha JK. hii kashfa mpya ya nyumba ya Dr Idris itapigwa mwereka kwani serikali yenyewe imeunda tume ya kumsafisha -- tayari imelizidi kete Bunge. Kashfa ya radar sijui wanafanyaje kumnasua huyo Dr.
Watanzania tuendelee na CCM yetu tu hadi itokee vita hapa ndiyo tuachane nayo -- au siyo?
Watanzania tuendelee na CCM yetu tu hadi itokee vita hapa ndiyo tuachane nayo -- au siyo?
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hii forum naona inanipandisha presha ngoja niende kwenye jamii photos au kwenye Entertainment Forum nika relax naona kuna picha za mamiss kule tehetehe
Ndiyo, RRI wanatengeneza TURBINE za kutumia natural gas tuliyonayo hapo nyumbani.
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On Heritage Oil - Bonus on the report
Kutokana na ripoti ile (kwa waliosoma wataweza kuunganisha mambo)
1: Taarifa ya kwanza
History
The Company was formed in 1992 to exploit oil reserves in Africa, the Middle East and Russia. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2008 and moved its head office from Calgary to Jerseyalso in 2008.
Operations
The Company is the operator and holds 50% interests in two licences in the Albert Basin of the Western Rift Valley of Uganda. Recent exploration activity has focused on the eastern shores of Lake Albert which straddles the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kurdistan. The Company is also active in Russia, Malta, Mali and Tanzania.
Following enormous success in drilling the Albert Basin in 2008, May 2009 saw the company discover a multi-billion barrel oil field following the test results of the Miran West well in Kurdistan.
2009 has also seen the company dispose of its asset in Oman in order to focus on its core assets.
Tony Buckingham still owns 33.2% of the company.
2: Taarifa ya Pili:
Tales of Tony Buckingham
By MATTHEW VELLA, Malta Today 6/7/08
Jul 10, 2008 - 7:48:22 AM
Controversial and notorious nothing could be closer to the truth for the man whom the Maltese government has licensed to conduct oil exploration in the islands south-eastern shelf, close to the disputed median line with Libya. That man is British oil tycoon Tony Buckingham, chief executive of the Canadian company Heritage Oil. Last December, Heritage was given two offshore areas spread over 18,000 square kilometres in a 30-year deal.
But Buckingham is not the average chief executive who slogged his way up through boardroom battles.
The truth can be found right inside Heritage Oil's 300-page prospectus, which explicitly points out how Mr Buckingham has had no involvement with any military or security operators since the spring of 1998.
This, then, is how Tony Buckingham's mercenary past in Africa and beyond, his befriending of dictators and oil barons, took him to the London listing of the $940 million Heritage Oil, with its assets in Russia, Oman, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Pakistan, Kurdistan, and now even in Malta.
Friends in dark places
Only two weeks ago, mercenary Simon Mann went on trial in Equatorial Guinea. Mann, a former Scots Guard, is imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea, and faces trial for leading the failed coup to depose oil dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled the country since 1979.
He was arrested in 2004 disembarking from a plane with 60 other mercenaries in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.
Today, Heritage Oil's prospectus makes it clear that Buckingham "has had no substantive business contact with Simon Mann since 1998 and no contact of any nature with him since 2000. He had no knowledge of Mr Mann's activity Guinea."
And the reason for such a dubious disclaimer is Mann's and Buckingham's past in the mercenary outfit Executive Outcomes, which they used to recover oil installations belonging to Heritage Oil from UNITA rebels in Angola.
For Tony Buckingham, the fact that his old friend is on trial for the foiled coup has brought yet more digging inside his business connections in the Caribbean tax havens.
Mann is the director of the company Logo Limited, the company he used for purchasing arms and paying mercenaries. The Equatorial Guinea legal action is connecting Logo to Hansard Trust Company Ltd and Hansard Management companies which hold one share in each of four companies within Heritage Oil's corporate structure. What is known is that both Logo and Hansard have the same business address in St Peter Port.
There is yet, no evidence links Buckingham with Mann, although it's the latest in a series of connections between the two.
War mercenary
Born in 1951, Heritage's prospectus says that in 1989, Anthony Leslie Buckingham, a former British SAS officer, became an adviser to the government of Angola and assisted the Angolan Oil Ministry in establishing Sonangol as an oil and gas exploration and production company. He founded Heritage Oil in 1992, and together with Sonangol held operations there.
In 1993, when the Angolan holding was overrun by communist UNITA rebels, Buckingham, together with Lt-Col Eeben Barlow; a former Apartheid-era member of the South African Defence Force and former Scots Guard Simon Mann became business partners in Executive Outcomes, a private military company formed by Barlow in 1989.
Executive Outcome senior personnel were composed primarily of former members of the South African Defence Force and later fought against UNITA to retake their operations.
But Executive Operations is also infamous for its involvement with another British mercenary company, Sandline International, that broke a UN arms embargo in Sierra Leone, allegedly with British government approval. Sandline's CEO was the retired Lt-Col Tim Spicer OBE.
In 1995, the government of Sierra Leone engaged Executive Outcomes to train the Sierra Leone army and support it in defeating RUF rebels. Sandline International was formed in late 1996 with Buckingham as one of the principals.
In 1997, when a military coup ousted president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone, millionaire Indian financier Rakesh Saxena contracted Sandline to organise a counter-coup in exchange for diamond exploration permits. The Heritage prospectus says Sandline had the tacit approval of the British government as well as support from a Royal Navy frigate. Saxena is implicated in the fraud and collapse of the Bangkok Bank of Commerce in 1996 and is today trying avoid extradition to Thailand from Canada to face embezzlement charges.
According to the British Parliament's Report of the Sierra Leone Arms Investigation, Saxena would raise the money so that Sandline could hire soldiers and buy equipment.
Sandline was also engaged by the government of Papua New Guinea to suppress the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), which was seeking independence from the PNG.
At the Papua New Guinea Commission of Enquiry into Sandline's contract with the PNG government, the enquiry concluded that the 'controllers' of Sandline were obviously Buckingham and at least to some extent Spicer. It said Executive Outcomes was a significant sub-contractor of Sandline and supplied a significant number of the personnel brought to PNG by Sandline.
Sandline International became dormant and the company was dissolved in 2004, while Executive Outcomes was dissolved in 1999.
Besides Sandline and Executive Outcomes, Tony Buckingham is also the principal shareholder in Indigo Sky Gem, a mining company which bought the exclusive prospecting rights for diamonds on the Neu Schwaben farm from the Namibian government. It is accused of using 'strong-arm' tactics to evict some 1,000 small-time miners who had been digging for the gems for years.
Such is the risk, then, documented inside Heritage's prospectus: "Adverse media about the CEO's past associations could materially adversely affect the group's reputation and the market price of the ordinary shares."
And even though the prospectus neatly transcribes Buckingham's mercenary past into struggles aimed at restoring internationally recognised governments and combating rebels, or that Heritage’s efforts are firmly focused in oil and gas exploration, the perfect tonic to Buckingham's reputation is JP Morgan Cazenove's research note: "Heritage ought to be seen as a high-risk, high-impact play with a tolerance for share-price volatility."
3: Taarifa ya 3
Heritage Oil Limited has received the approval by the Government of Tanzania for farm-ins to four exploration licences in Tanzania and the transfer of operatorship to Heritage.
Heritage previously announced the farm-ins to the Kimbiji and Latham licences on April 11, 2008 and the Kisangire and Lukuliro licences on April 21, 2008.
Heritage has commenced acquisition of 2D seismic, initially in the onshore part of the Kimbiji licence area, after which seismic operations will be conducted in the Kisangire licence area. Heritage plans to drill its first well in Tanzania in the second half of 2009.
Kisangire and Lukuliro Licence Areas
The Kisangire and Lukuliro licence areas cover an area of 7,280 square kilometres and 8,828 square kilometres respectively, onshore Tanzania. The PSA was originally awarded to Dominion Petroleum Limited ("Dominion") in May 2005 with an exploration period of four years followed by one extension of four years, a further extension of three years and the right to a development licence with a term of 25 years.
Under the terms of the farm-in agreement with Dominion, Heritage initially has the right to earn a working interest of 55% in the Kisangire and Lukuliro licences. In order to earn the working interests, Heritage will fund all costs to acquire a minimum of 150 kilometres of 2D seismic data and drill the first commitment well. Heritage also has an option to earn an additional 15% working interest, thereby increasing its participating interest to 70%, by funding 87.5% of the costs of a second well.
Latham and Kimbiji Licence Areas
The Latham and Kimbiji licences, covering 5,056 square kilometres and 4,298 square kilometres respectively, encompass onshore (1,881 square kilometres), near shore (2,981 square kilometres), and deep water (4,491 square kilometres) areas. The PSA was awarded by way of a competitive tender process to Petrodel Resources Ltd ("Petrodel") by the Tanzanian Government in September 2006, having an exploration period of four years, followed by extensions of four years and three years respectively, with the right to a development licence with a term of 25 years.
Under the terms of the farm-in agreement with Petrodel, Heritage has the right to earn a 70% working interest in the Kimbiji licence area, and a 29.9% working interest in the Latham licence area in return for funding all seismic costs required for the initial exploration period on both licences and the drilling of two exploration wells within the Kimbiji licence area. Heritage will act initially as contract operator, being responsible for all technical and operational aspects of the work programmes and will be appointed operator upon drilling the second exploration well in the Kimbiji licence.
The Kimbiji and Kisangire licence areas are close to the Mkuranga-1 gas discovery, which was drilled in 2007 and reportedly flowed gas at a rate of 20 mmcf/d. The large Songo Songo producing gas field is located approximately 60 kilometres to the south east of the Kimbiji licence area.
Historic seismic data, combined with encouraging hydrocarbon shows in wells drilled in the region and oil seeps at Wingayongo in the Kisangire licence area, indicate the presence of a working hydrocarbon system that is generating both oil and gas.
Tony Buckingham, Chief Executive Officer, commented:
"We are very pleased to have received Government approval and completed the farm-in agreements in Tanzania. These prospective licences form part of the Company's strategy of exploring new regions with considerable hydrocarbon potential. Heritage's activity in Tanzania has already commenced with the acquisition of seismic, which will be followed by a drilling programme next year."
Well:
Now you need to get the report!
Kutokana na ripoti ile (kwa waliosoma wataweza kuunganisha mambo)
1: Taarifa ya kwanza
History
The Company was formed in 1992 to exploit oil reserves in Africa, the Middle East and Russia. It was first listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2008 and moved its head office from Calgary to Jerseyalso in 2008.
Operations
The Company is the operator and holds 50% interests in two licences in the Albert Basin of the Western Rift Valley of Uganda. Recent exploration activity has focused on the eastern shores of Lake Albert which straddles the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kurdistan. The Company is also active in Russia, Malta, Mali and Tanzania.
Following enormous success in drilling the Albert Basin in 2008, May 2009 saw the company discover a multi-billion barrel oil field following the test results of the Miran West well in Kurdistan.
2009 has also seen the company dispose of its asset in Oman in order to focus on its core assets.
Tony Buckingham still owns 33.2% of the company.
2: Taarifa ya Pili:
Tales of Tony Buckingham
By MATTHEW VELLA, Malta Today 6/7/08
Jul 10, 2008 - 7:48:22 AM
Controversial and notorious nothing could be closer to the truth for the man whom the Maltese government has licensed to conduct oil exploration in the islands south-eastern shelf, close to the disputed median line with Libya. That man is British oil tycoon Tony Buckingham, chief executive of the Canadian company Heritage Oil. Last December, Heritage was given two offshore areas spread over 18,000 square kilometres in a 30-year deal.
But Buckingham is not the average chief executive who slogged his way up through boardroom battles.
The truth can be found right inside Heritage Oil's 300-page prospectus, which explicitly points out how Mr Buckingham has had no involvement with any military or security operators since the spring of 1998.
This, then, is how Tony Buckingham's mercenary past in Africa and beyond, his befriending of dictators and oil barons, took him to the London listing of the $940 million Heritage Oil, with its assets in Russia, Oman, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mali, Pakistan, Kurdistan, and now even in Malta.
Friends in dark places
Only two weeks ago, mercenary Simon Mann went on trial in Equatorial Guinea. Mann, a former Scots Guard, is imprisoned in Equatorial Guinea, and faces trial for leading the failed coup to depose oil dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema, who has ruled the country since 1979.
He was arrested in 2004 disembarking from a plane with 60 other mercenaries in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.
Today, Heritage Oil's prospectus makes it clear that Buckingham "has had no substantive business contact with Simon Mann since 1998 and no contact of any nature with him since 2000. He had no knowledge of Mr Mann's activity Guinea."
And the reason for such a dubious disclaimer is Mann's and Buckingham's past in the mercenary outfit Executive Outcomes, which they used to recover oil installations belonging to Heritage Oil from UNITA rebels in Angola.
For Tony Buckingham, the fact that his old friend is on trial for the foiled coup has brought yet more digging inside his business connections in the Caribbean tax havens.
Mann is the director of the company Logo Limited, the company he used for purchasing arms and paying mercenaries. The Equatorial Guinea legal action is connecting Logo to Hansard Trust Company Ltd and Hansard Management companies which hold one share in each of four companies within Heritage Oil's corporate structure. What is known is that both Logo and Hansard have the same business address in St Peter Port.
There is yet, no evidence links Buckingham with Mann, although it's the latest in a series of connections between the two.
War mercenary
Born in 1951, Heritage's prospectus says that in 1989, Anthony Leslie Buckingham, a former British SAS officer, became an adviser to the government of Angola and assisted the Angolan Oil Ministry in establishing Sonangol as an oil and gas exploration and production company. He founded Heritage Oil in 1992, and together with Sonangol held operations there.
In 1993, when the Angolan holding was overrun by communist UNITA rebels, Buckingham, together with Lt-Col Eeben Barlow; a former Apartheid-era member of the South African Defence Force and former Scots Guard Simon Mann became business partners in Executive Outcomes, a private military company formed by Barlow in 1989.
Executive Outcome senior personnel were composed primarily of former members of the South African Defence Force and later fought against UNITA to retake their operations.
But Executive Operations is also infamous for its involvement with another British mercenary company, Sandline International, that broke a UN arms embargo in Sierra Leone, allegedly with British government approval. Sandline's CEO was the retired Lt-Col Tim Spicer OBE.
In 1995, the government of Sierra Leone engaged Executive Outcomes to train the Sierra Leone army and support it in defeating RUF rebels. Sandline International was formed in late 1996 with Buckingham as one of the principals.
In 1997, when a military coup ousted president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone, millionaire Indian financier Rakesh Saxena contracted Sandline to organise a counter-coup in exchange for diamond exploration permits. The Heritage prospectus says Sandline had the tacit approval of the British government as well as support from a Royal Navy frigate. Saxena is implicated in the fraud and collapse of the Bangkok Bank of Commerce in 1996 and is today trying avoid extradition to Thailand from Canada to face embezzlement charges.
According to the British Parliament's Report of the Sierra Leone Arms Investigation, Saxena would raise the money so that Sandline could hire soldiers and buy equipment.
Sandline was also engaged by the government of Papua New Guinea to suppress the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA), which was seeking independence from the PNG.
At the Papua New Guinea Commission of Enquiry into Sandline's contract with the PNG government, the enquiry concluded that the 'controllers' of Sandline were obviously Buckingham and at least to some extent Spicer. It said Executive Outcomes was a significant sub-contractor of Sandline and supplied a significant number of the personnel brought to PNG by Sandline.
Sandline International became dormant and the company was dissolved in 2004, while Executive Outcomes was dissolved in 1999.
Besides Sandline and Executive Outcomes, Tony Buckingham is also the principal shareholder in Indigo Sky Gem, a mining company which bought the exclusive prospecting rights for diamonds on the Neu Schwaben farm from the Namibian government. It is accused of using 'strong-arm' tactics to evict some 1,000 small-time miners who had been digging for the gems for years.
Such is the risk, then, documented inside Heritage's prospectus: "Adverse media about the CEO's past associations could materially adversely affect the group's reputation and the market price of the ordinary shares."
And even though the prospectus neatly transcribes Buckingham's mercenary past into struggles aimed at restoring internationally recognised governments and combating rebels, or that Heritage’s efforts are firmly focused in oil and gas exploration, the perfect tonic to Buckingham's reputation is JP Morgan Cazenove's research note: "Heritage ought to be seen as a high-risk, high-impact play with a tolerance for share-price volatility."
3: Taarifa ya 3
Heritage Oil Limited has received the approval by the Government of Tanzania for farm-ins to four exploration licences in Tanzania and the transfer of operatorship to Heritage.
Heritage previously announced the farm-ins to the Kimbiji and Latham licences on April 11, 2008 and the Kisangire and Lukuliro licences on April 21, 2008.
Heritage has commenced acquisition of 2D seismic, initially in the onshore part of the Kimbiji licence area, after which seismic operations will be conducted in the Kisangire licence area. Heritage plans to drill its first well in Tanzania in the second half of 2009.
Kisangire and Lukuliro Licence Areas
The Kisangire and Lukuliro licence areas cover an area of 7,280 square kilometres and 8,828 square kilometres respectively, onshore Tanzania. The PSA was originally awarded to Dominion Petroleum Limited ("Dominion") in May 2005 with an exploration period of four years followed by one extension of four years, a further extension of three years and the right to a development licence with a term of 25 years.
Under the terms of the farm-in agreement with Dominion, Heritage initially has the right to earn a working interest of 55% in the Kisangire and Lukuliro licences. In order to earn the working interests, Heritage will fund all costs to acquire a minimum of 150 kilometres of 2D seismic data and drill the first commitment well. Heritage also has an option to earn an additional 15% working interest, thereby increasing its participating interest to 70%, by funding 87.5% of the costs of a second well.
Latham and Kimbiji Licence Areas
The Latham and Kimbiji licences, covering 5,056 square kilometres and 4,298 square kilometres respectively, encompass onshore (1,881 square kilometres), near shore (2,981 square kilometres), and deep water (4,491 square kilometres) areas. The PSA was awarded by way of a competitive tender process to Petrodel Resources Ltd ("Petrodel") by the Tanzanian Government in September 2006, having an exploration period of four years, followed by extensions of four years and three years respectively, with the right to a development licence with a term of 25 years.
Under the terms of the farm-in agreement with Petrodel, Heritage has the right to earn a 70% working interest in the Kimbiji licence area, and a 29.9% working interest in the Latham licence area in return for funding all seismic costs required for the initial exploration period on both licences and the drilling of two exploration wells within the Kimbiji licence area. Heritage will act initially as contract operator, being responsible for all technical and operational aspects of the work programmes and will be appointed operator upon drilling the second exploration well in the Kimbiji licence.
The Kimbiji and Kisangire licence areas are close to the Mkuranga-1 gas discovery, which was drilled in 2007 and reportedly flowed gas at a rate of 20 mmcf/d. The large Songo Songo producing gas field is located approximately 60 kilometres to the south east of the Kimbiji licence area.
Historic seismic data, combined with encouraging hydrocarbon shows in wells drilled in the region and oil seeps at Wingayongo in the Kisangire licence area, indicate the presence of a working hydrocarbon system that is generating both oil and gas.
Tony Buckingham, Chief Executive Officer, commented:
"We are very pleased to have received Government approval and completed the farm-in agreements in Tanzania. These prospective licences form part of the Company's strategy of exploring new regions with considerable hydrocarbon potential. Heritage's activity in Tanzania has already commenced with the acquisition of seismic, which will be followed by a drilling programme next year."
Well:
Now you need to get the report!
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Sioni tatizo katika hili, hadi sasa kwa upande wa Tanzania transaction ni za kawaida na iwapo tutakuwa na mashaka na wakurugenzi wa kampuni hizi kwa kuangalia historia zao za zamani basi ubepari utatushinda kwa sababu sioni mwekezaji yeyote mwenye record isiyo na madoa.
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Who is Tony Buckingham? And why does everyone want to talk to him?
Arms to Africa crisis: At the heart of the Sierra Leone affair is a fabulously wealthy former commando who controls a highly secretive network of companies
Fran Abrams, Andrew Buncombe, Steve Boggan and Mark Stucke
Wednesday, 13 May 1998
LEGAL NOTE: - Ranger Oil say they never employed Executive Outcomes nor was involved in any military actions described. Please refer to legal dept.
Fran Abrams, Andrew Buncombe, Steve Boggan and Mark Stucke
SIPPING rum and Cokes on board his pounds 1.5m Admiral's Cup yacht Easy Oars, Tony Buckingham displays none of the Machiavellian traits that have brought him fantastic wealth.
With his easygoing nature and ready smile, the former Special Boat Squadron officer fits in well with the Cowes set and the racing fraternity. Delve deeper, however, and a different picture emerges - a picture of a man who can summon a small private army with little more than a few phone calls. And a man prepared to use that army to raise fabulous wealth.
Through his secretive network of companies, controlled with iron discipline, Mr Buckingham, 46, is emerging as a central figure in the Sierra Leone arms-to-Africa affair.
For the past 10 years, Mr Buckingham and his companies have been linked to a series of mercenary military operations launched on behalf of governments in power or exile and multinationals, in return for cash. He has always denied reports that some payments have been in the form of mineral concessions.
To unravel his complex web, it is necessary to go back to 1989 when he set up the South African and British "military consultancy" Executive Outcomes (EO) - essentially a highly professional unit of mercenaries comprising mainly South African commandos.
The first job for EO, which was also run by Eeben Barlow, a former member of the South African special forces, was to protect oil companies in Angola threatened by the civil war.
The company that employed EO in Angola was Ranger Oil, which reportedly has links to the Buckingham-controlled Heritage Oil and Gas, the company that has made him a multi-millionaire.
Heritage Oil and Gas, coupled with his other companies, Diamond Works and Branch Energy, share offices at 535 King's Road, Chelsea, with Sandline International, the company which shipped arms and personnel to Sierra Leone for the counter coup which restored the elected president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah in March.
EO's success in Angola earned it a contract from the Luanda government to provide men, training and weapons in the battle against Unita rebels. It was a contract worth a reported $40m (pounds 25m), said to be made up partly of offshore oil rights.
Buoyed by its experiences in Angola, EO began looking for similar contracts elsewhere in Africa. It settled on diamond and mineral-rich Sierra Leone where, in 1994, a growing rebellion - led by the Revolutionary United Front - had threatened to bring down the government of Valentine Strasser.
In May 1995, the Strasser government announced that EO had been asked to organise the training of the army. The announcement was made by Rupert Bowen, at the time a British diplomat but now employed by a Buckingham- controlled company. Four months later, that company - Branch Energy - had taken over a diamond mine in one of the areas being fought over. EO was reportedly rewarded with mineral and diamond concessions.
The name of Tony Buckingham surfaced again following a failed military operation in Papua New Guinea at the beginning of 1997. In scenes that attracted the attention of the world, a team of mercenaries led by the former British army officer Lt-Col Tim Spicer was thrown out of the country after a pounds 22.5m contract to capture a copper mine from rebels on the island of Bougainville went wrong. The mercenaries, hired by the Papua New Guinea government to take the mine, were from Sandline International.
A commission of inquiry set up by a fresh Papua New Guinea administration examined the role of Sandline. Giving evidence, Lt-Col Spicer admitted Sandline and EO were "closely linked". At one stage, he said Tony Buckingham was Sandline's chairman, though he later retracted this when questioned by journalists.
However, the inquiry concluded that Mr Buckingham, a second man, Michael Grunberg, and to a lesser extent Lt-Col Spicer, were the "controllers" of Sandline International. Mr Grunberg is also a director of Diamond Works and, until April this year, a director of Plaza 107, the company which runs 535 King's Road.
Lt-Col Spicer, who ran the latest Sierra Leone operation, publicly denies that Sandline and Executive Outcomes are formally linked, but he and Mr Buckingham have said they are close friends who have passed work to each other.
In a rare interview, Mr Buckingham once said: "It is a fact that I did introduce Executive Outcomes into African countries that needed help. These were elected governments, they've always been invited in by them, and they've never acted against HMG's interests."
Born in November 1951, Mr Buckingham has homes in Eaton Square, Belgravia, Alresford in Hampshire, and Guernsey. He was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Last year, when the Foreign Office organised a conference entitled "Restoring Democracy to Sierra Leone", two men from one of his companies were in attendance - the former diplomat Rupert Bowen - now a senior representative of Branch Energy - and Robert Brown.
Representing the Government was Tony Lloyd, the Foreign Office minister, who says he knew nothing of the plan to involve mercenaries. Mostly, talk at the conference was strictly of democratic restoration of Mr Kabbah's government. On the sidelines, however, the realpolitik favoured military intervention. One delegate said: "The issue of restoring Kabbah to power by force was obviously sensitive. It was not something talked about openly, rather it was something whispered round the edges."
By then, however, Lt-Col Spicer and the men from Sandline were well advanced in their plans to provide military assistance to the deposed president. They went ahead with their mission in a manner that would have made Mr Buckingham proud. As he said last year, before the counter-coup: "Most people, including the UN, would agree they have been extremely useful. It's not just a wild-arsed group of individuals that go on the rampage looking for thrills and spills."
Mzee Mwanakijiji
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I would also suggest somebody to read this article here to understand WHAT we are fighting..
Making a Killing - The Center for Public Integrity
Making a Killing - The Center for Public Integrity
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Noor Oil & Industrial Technology Inc. (NOIT) a private company limited by shares and incorporated under the laws of the State of California U. S. A , become a consortium and has signed and agreement with the United Republic of Tanzania to build an oil refinery and oil pipeline from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza and Kigoma. Members of the consortium are : Noor Oil & Industrial Technology Inc, OAO Stroytransgaz, 000 Prometey/ Sakneftegazstroy, Roneg AG, and Russia Union of Oil .
Noor Oil & Industrial Technology Inc. (NOIT) a private company limited by shares and incorporated under the laws of the State of California U. S. A , become a consortium and has signed and agreement with the United Republic of Tanzania to build an oil refinery and oil pipeline from Dar es Salaam to Mwanza and Kigoma. Members of the consortium are : Noor Oil & Industrial Technology Inc, OAO Stroytransgaz, 000 Prometey/ Sakneftegazstroy, Roneg AG, and Russia Union of Oil .
The projected costs of the refinery and pipeline are estimated to be approximately Three and One Half Billion Dollars ($3,500,000,000) and will have the capacity to supply the people of Tanzania and its neighbors with the refined products desperately needed.
The refinery will be state of the art facility and will yield of 98% white products. The design of the project will allow a room for expansion if the need may arise.
Noor Oil currently in advance negotiations with the neighboring governments to expand the pipeline directly into those countries. A highly developed pipeline will give the region a steady, uninterrupted supply of refined products that will be much more cost effective then the present system of importing , The project advantages are undoubtedly enormous, One relates to the huge net proceeds from the storage and transport of products to Mwanza , Kigoma and neighboring state, the other concerns the national savings in the cost of road maintenance occasioned by excessive use of surface transports to deliver products to destinations in Mwanza , Kigoma and beyond. The third advantage addresses the risks to human lives attributed to the road accidents and the protection of the environment which is a major part.
Prior to the completion of the project, Noor Oil intends to supply the Tanzanian market with refined products from other refineries that Noor Oil affiliated .
Company news
- MONDAY 10TH OCTOBER, 2005 - 12.30 PM , A MEETING WAS HELD AT MINISTERY OF ENERGY AND MINERALS OF UNITED REPUBLLIC OF TANZANIA OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR ENERGY AND PETOLEUM , DURING PRESENTATION OF A PROPOSED REFINERY AND PIPELINE PROJECTS BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF TANZANIA AND M/S. NOOR OIL AND INDUSTERIAL TECHNOLGY.
- 22-23-02-2006, AGREED MINUTES OF THE ROUND MEETING OF NEGOTIATIONS HELD IN THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT CONFERENCE ROOM 4TH FLOOR BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF TANZANIA THROUGH THE MINSTERY OF ENERGY AND MINERALS AND M/S. NOOR OIL AND INDUSTRIAL TECHONLOGY
- 30TH JUN 2006, A MEETING HAS BEEN HELD AT DODOMA TO DISCUSS THE PENDING ISSUES RELATED TO THE PROPOSED ESTABLISHMENT OF A CRUDE OIL REFINERY AND PIPELINEM BETWEEN GOVERNMENT OF TANZANIA AND M/S. NOOR OIL AND INDUSTRIAL TECHONLOGY.
- 9TH SEPTEMBER 2006, A MEETING HAS BEEN IN MOSCOW BETWEEN GOVERNMENT OF TANZANIA AND NOOR OIL AND INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF OIL REFINERY AND OIL PIPELINE IN TANZANIA.
- 8TH FEBRAURY 2007, THE MINESTER OF PLANNING , ECONOMY AND EMPOWERMENT HAS ISSUED A PRESS RELEASE ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL INVESTMENT STEERING COMMITTEE UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF HONORABLE PRIME MINISTER EDWARD LOWASSA (MP), AND GRANTED M/S. NOOR OIL AND INDUSTERIAL TECHNOLGY WITH THE STRATEGIC INVESTOR STATUS, FOR THE COSNTRUCTION OF OIL REFINERY AND OIL PIPELINE BETWEEN DARS ES SALAAM TO MWANZA AND KIGOMA.
- 12TH FEBRAURY 2007, THE MINSTERY OF ENERGY AND MINERALS HASS ISSUED A LETTER OF SUPPORT AND NO OBJECTION TO THE FAVOUR OF M/S NOOR OIL AND INDUSTERIAL ETCHNOLOGHY .
- ON JUN 2007, THE GOVERNMENT OF TANZANIA HAS ALLOCATED A SUFFICENT LAND AT SHORE FOR THE COSNTRUCTION OF THE OIL REFINERY AT MUKURANGA, KISIJU DISTRICT.
- M/S NOOR OIL AND INDUSTERIAL TECHNOLOGY HAS ACCEPTED THE INVITATION LETTERS FROM THE GOVENMENT OF BURUNDI, RWANDA, UGANDA AND DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO FOR THE EXTENTION OF THE OIL PIPELINE TO THEIR RESPECTIVE COUNTRIES, NOOR OIL DELEGATION WILL VISIT THOSE COUNTRIES ON JANAURY 2008.
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