WATCH: Oil explorations & projects in Tanzania

[Kichuguu]

Julius kaka yangu.

Makosa yaliyofanyika Tanzania yanaelekewa ya historia kidogo lakini nadhani yana mwisho wake, ingawa mwisho huo unaweza kufikiwa wakati hatuna nchi. Kosa la kwanza lililofanyika Tanzania ni pale tulipojenga mfumo ambao tulimwamani sana kiongozi kuwa ni mzalendo na anafanya kila jambo kwa msalahi ya nchi. Nyerere, Sokoine na viongozi wengi wa kizazi cha kwanza walikuwa wazalendo, kwa hiyo tukawa tunawaamini, hatukujenga mfumo wa kuwahoji na kuwaadhibu viongozi hao. Baada ya viongozi wazalendo kuisha, tukapata viongozi wajasiliamali ambao hawakujali maslahi ya nchi zaidi ya faida zao binafsi chini ya mfumo ule ule tuliokuwa nao wakati tukiwa na viongozi wazalendo. Wakatumia nafasi zao kutafuna nchi huku wengine wakitumia mali za serikali kufanya hivyo. Sijui niwalaumu viongozi wazalendo kwa kutotuachia misingi ya kuwaadhibu viongozi au niwalaumu wananchi wenzangu kwa kuwa wavumilivu kupita kiasi huku tukilalamikia chini chini.

Nasikia sasa hivi Tanzania ni ya tatu kwa uchimbaji wa dhahabu duniani, lakini Tanzania haiopnekani kama nchi ya dhahabu; vile vile nimesikia kuwa katika miaka 12 Tanzanite yote itakuwa imekwisha, na bado Tanzania haitaonekana kama nchi ya Tanzanite. Tutabaki na mashimo matupu ambayo yatazagaa nchi nzima hadi kwenye barabara zetu za Dar es Salaam.

Inabidi wananchi tuamke kusema sasa basi; tudai katiba mpya inayoruhusu viongozi (hata rais) kuadhibiwa papo kwa papo inapogundulika kuwa wamepotumia madaraka yao vibaya na kusababisha hasara kubwa kwa nchi. Tuondoe huo usiri wa serikali, kwa sababu serikali ni ya wanachi siyo kuwa ni kampuni binafsi ya walio madarakani. Sijui kama wakati wa kuamka ni huu au bado lakini nadhani haitachukua muda wananchi wataamka.

 

[KadaMpinzani]

M/Mungu tunusuru mafuta yasipatikane tanzania !!

 

[omarilyas]

Nashauri wenzangu walio nana nafasi kujikita katika elimu na tafiti mbalimbali zinazohusiana na nafasi ya utajiri wa mafuta katika siasa za dunia na faida na athari zake katika jamii mbalimbali.

Tusikae pembeni tukategemea kuwa wale waliosign mikataba ya madini ndio watakaotuwekea mazingira mazuri ya kufaidika ama kutoathirika na neema hii aliyotukabidhi mwingi wa rehema.

Hivi hao waliopo hapo Dodoma wanajaribu hata kufanya utafiti wa masuala haya ili kujiwezesha kiujuzi katika maswala hayo? Ama tukifika wakati tutaanza kutumia internet kama vigezo vya kujengea hoja?

Tanzanianjema

 

[DAR si LAMU]

M/Mungu tunusuru mafuta yasipatikane tanzania !!

....yalishapatikana...ooh!au tuseme yamepatikana!.

....tena mengi!karibu nchi nzima!

 

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Tanzania gas wells show 'traces' of crude oil

By JOSEPH MWAMUNYANGE
Special Correspondent

Traces of crude oil have been discovered in three natural gas wells at Mnazi Bay in Mtwara, Tanzania

According to the managing director of the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC), Yona Killaghane, "The liquids were very clear and looked like a condensate, but their density and volatility made them similar to crude oil, with a longer chain of hydrocarbons that applies to condensates."

TPDC was exploring the wells in conjunction with Artumas Tanzania Ltd. The deputy managing director of Artumas Tanzania Ltd, Salvatory Ntomola, said the company was planning laboratory tests to ascertain the nature of liquid hydrocarbons produced from the Mnazi Bay Concession wells.

He said preliminary specifications of the liquids produced from the production-testing operations range from 25 to 27 degrees by American Petroleum Institute standards, which is normally associated with the existence of crude oil reserves.

Cumulative production of liquid hydrocarbons during production-testing of three wells was approximately 90 barrels during the 50 days of production.

"This isn't a significant amount but the prospects are good," said Mr Ntomola.

The Commissioner for Minerals in the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Basil Mrindoko, said the first assignment for Artumas was to re-enter a 1982 well and assess the adequacy of gas for the power generation project for Mtwara and Lindi. He said the first phase of the project had been completed and power supply was now more reliable.

He further said that the government was now finalising arrangements that would allow Artumas to build, own and operate the power system for Mtwara and Lindi instead of the Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco).

 

[BAK]

New cry of foul over oil exploration deal

THIS DAY

A CONTRACT signed between the Ministry of Energy and Minerals and StatoilHydro company of Norway allows the foreign company to retain a cool 90 per cent of revenue earned from the sale of oil it extracts from Tanzanian soil, it has been learnt.

The revelation was made in Dar es Salaam yesterday by Norwegian journalist Erik Hagen, who is on assignment in the country for a news agency monitoring Norwegian companies operating abroad.

Speaking in an interview with THISDAY, Hagen said he and his bosses at the news agency Norwatch had been so 'shocke' by what they saw in the StatoilHydro reports that it was decided to send him to Tanzania to find out more.

He said his assignment includes learning more about the agreement between StatoilHydro and local authorities, including the Tanzania Petroleum Development Company (TPDC).

StatoilHydro is one of over 20 foreign companies which have signed oil production sharing agreements with the Ministry of Energy and Minerals. The company, which is owned by the Norwegian government, is searching for oil in Deepwater Block 2 off the coast of Tanzania, in the Indian Ocean.

The company says on its website that should commercial discoveries of oil be made, the TPDC will 'have the right to take a 10 per cent participatory interest.'

It also says the Block 2 that the agreement refers to lies in water depths down to 3,000 metres, and is so far unexplored.

'We were amazed the conditions are so generous. Nothing like that could happen in Norway. If a foreign company is lucky enough, it might get 10 per cent of revenue not the host country,' Hagen said.

He wondered how the host government in this case could have accepted such a poor production sharing agreement which is far from internationally-acceptable standards.

THISDAY has learnt that StatoilHydro also has oil production sharing agreements with the Angolan government through state-owned company Sanangol P&P.

Says the StatoilHydro website: 'Angola is one of StatoilHydro's most important priority areas. More than half of our non-Norwegian oil production currently hails from this country.'

It says StatoilHydro collaborates with Sonangol P&P in petroleum exploration and production, stating that discoveries made off the Angolan coast in recent years are among the largest in the world.

Of the revenue sharing procedure, the website says StatoilHydro owns 20 per cent of one block, 23.33 per cent in another block, and 13.33 per cent each in two other blocks, whereby Sonangol P&P hold the remaining shares in each case.

'The share ownership structure also determines the revenue sharing procedure,' it says.

In a statement released last April, the government announced the signing in Dodoma of a production sharing agreement (PSA) between the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, TPDC and Statoil AS (Tanzania) for petroleum exploration and production over Block 2 of the deep sea.

Under the agreement, StatoilHydro is expected to spend a minimum of $10m (approx. 12.5bn/-) in the first four years for review of existing data and acquisition of total 5,800 kilometres of new seismic data, and at least another $30m (approx. 37.5bn/-) to drill an exploration well in the next four years.

In the three years following that, the company is expected to spend at least $25m (approx. 32bn/-) more to drill one more exploration well, the agreement states.

However, the statement was silent on revenue sharing once commercial production starts.

According to the statement, the Minister for Energy and Minerals, Nazir Karamagi, signed on behalf of the government, managing director Yona Killagane signed on behalf of TPDC, and StatoilHydro chairman Jan Vollset signed on behalf of the Norwegian company.

Also present at the function was TPDC board chairman General (rtd) Robert Mboma and Norway's Ambassador to Tanzania, Jon Lomoy.

The Statoil block, which is on the eastern part of the Mandawa Coastal Basin, has an area of 11,099 square kilometres. According to the statement, the signing brought the total number of active production sharing agreements in Tanzania to 17.

 

[Alpha]

What can you do but shake your head.

Our beloved country is doomed unless something is done quickly

:-(

 

[G.MWAKASEGE]

It is now made clear to me that common science is sometimes not common. Yaani kuwapa watu 90 % mpaka wausika wanasema we are so generous.

Jamani watz wamewaentrust ninyi viongozi ndo mwadiliki fanya utumbo kama huo.

Mungu ibariki Tz, mungu ibariki Tanzania.

 

[MtuKwao]

Are we cursed?

 

[Mfwatiliaji]

Shocked..really!!

Kikwete is moving around the world using poor taxpayers' money to strike such awful deals of selling the country at a throw-away. Are these people cursed???

What's the problem with our leaders? I cant believe that Tanzanians can tolerate such a blasphemy. Come on wake up Tanzanians!!! I cant believe!!

But at the end of the day Kikwete his team will be accountable, i believe this will happen sooner and the punishment equals to be hanged to death, Gadem shit!!

 

[Idimi]

I wonder, what happened really to our signaories?

 

[Mizizi]

Kuna habari ya kuwa, Kule Kisiwani Mafia Mchakato wa Uchimbaji wa Mafuta na gesi tayari umeshaanza. Makampuni husika tayari yameshafika na wameanza kujenga nyumba za wafanyakazi watakaoshughulika na kazi hiyo. Pia Minara ya kampuni hiyo ndiyo imeanza kujengwa na kibali wameshapatiwa kutoka wizara husika.

Cha kushangaza ni kwamba, Kuwepo kwa mafuta na kuanza harakati ka kupatikana kwa malighafi kama hii nchini kwetu na jinsi mchakato unavyoendeshwa. Je ni kweli jambo kama hili kusiwepo hata habari zozote hata kwenye vyombo vya habari? au tayari kuna hujuma hapa zimeshapita?

Pia kama makubaliano yamefikiwa ni kwa kutumia sheria zipi? kwani huo muswada wa Nishati hiyo ndio kwanza umepitishwa.

Pia tunataka kujua, huo mkataba ni wa miaka mingapi na unahusisha mambo gani?

 

[Gagnija]

Labda nao wamepewa bure kama tulivyowagawia wahindi shirika la reli.

 

[BAK]

NEMC puts foot down on 2.6bn/- Kigamboni oil refinery project

SEBASTIAN MRINDOKO
THIS DAY
Dar es Salaam

THE National Environment Management Council (NEMC) yesterday asserted that it would be illegal for the investor who intends to build a 2.6bn/- oil refinery and pipeline from Kigamboni in Dar es Salaam, to do so without first doing an environmental impact assessment (EIA) and preparing an environmental management plan (EMP).

''All potential investments in this country must carry out an EIA and EMP, and both should be forwarded to the NEMC,'' said a senior official of the Council, who however, declined to be named.

The official said after the EIA/EMP reports have been analyzed by NEMC, a decision could be given either to go ahead with the project or suspend it, depending on its potential effects on the environment.

In case the project is suspended due to enormous hazards that might occur to the environment where it is to be established, the official said it was possible to find an alternative area where the environmental impact would be less.

''Although the project agreement has already been signed between the government of Tanzania and the investor of the oil refinery, still an environmental impact assessment of the area should be a key and significant requirement to be implemented beforehand,'' he said.

NEMC has already stated that it does not possess any records on the said investor of the $2.6bn oil refinery project earmarked for the Kigamboni Amani Gomvu area in Temeke District, alongside an envisaged oil pipeline to Kigoma.

In a letter with reference number NEMC/489/1/Vol.1/79, signed by a NEMC official and seen by THISDAY, the Council describes the move to construct a giant oil refinery at Amani Gomvu as a revocation of the 2004 Environmental Act.

''The records that are in NEMC's possession do not show in any way that the oil refinery project has even been registered, let alone any details of the said investor,'' the letter says.

It states further that NEMC has the mandate to assess the environmental impact of the project on the project area, in order to identify whether the area in question is favorable for a specific project to be conducted.

The 2004 Environmental Act demands all investors to register their projects at NEMC in order to undergo all procedures for proper evaluation and assessment of environmental impacts in the project area.

Recently, Minondo-Amani Gomvu local government authority chairperson Juma Mkala was quoted as saying the project is still in line to go ahead despite delays caused by NEMC and land court authorities.

He said although the Minondo residents whose lands have been targeted for the oil refinery and pipeline project have forwarded their claims to the Land Tribunal and to the NEMC, they appear to be wasting their time and money, while in reality the project should be allowed to proceed.

Mkala said officials from the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements Development have already put beacons around the area where the oil refinery is to be set up.

Reports say the refinery and oil pipeline from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma are to be built by a consortium of foreign investors led by a Qatar-based firm, M/S Noor Oil and Industrial Technology Limited (NOIT). Other consortium partners are Stroytransgas Public Corporation and Zakneftegaz-Prometery, both of Russia, and RONEG TAG of Germany.

The formal project agreement between the consortium and the government was signed in Dodoma in April last year, with the then Planning and Economic Empowerment Minister, Dr Juma Ngasongwa, and the then Permanent Secretary in the same ministry, Charles Mutalemwa, signing on behalf of the government.

 

[Chuma]

Kwanini refinery isiwe Mbali na Mji?...Daraja lajengwa Huko..Khofu yangu ya refinery ikija kuburst!!!

 

[DAR si LAMU]

Kwanini refinery isiwe Mbali na Mji?...Daraja lajengwa Huko..Khofu yangu ya refinery ikija kuburst!!!

..refineries nyingi zinajengwa karibu na bandari,for obvious reasons!

..EIA ni muhimu, ila cha muhimu zaidi ni mkataba wa kuuziana mafuta, kama utakuwepo au la.

..tunaweza kurudi kulee kwenye IPTL.

 

[Keykey]

Hii imtoka hewani leo hii.

Tujadili mikataba hii; je nchi ina maslahi gani au mikataba gani iko kwenye pipeline ambayo bado haijawekwa hadharani?

Heritage Oil gets govt approval for 4 Tanzania farm-ins
2008-09-15 08:40:12
LONDON (Thomson Financial)

Heritage Oil Ltd. said it has received approval from the government of Tanzania for farm-ins to four exploration licences in that country and the transfer of operatorship to Heritage.

TFN News Brifing

Highlights from HERITAGE OIL CORPORATION Press Release

CALGARY, Sept. 15 /CNW/ - Heritage Oil Limited (LSE: HOIL), an independent upstream exploration and production company, announces the approval by the Government of Tanzania of farm-ins to four exploration licences in Tanzania and the transfer of operatorship to Heritage.

• Farm-in to the Kisangire and Lukuliro licences, which are held under one production sharing agreement ("PSA"), has been approved by the Government of Tanzania. Heritage appointed operator of these licences
• Farm-in to the Kimbiji and Latham licences, also held under one PSA, was approved by the Government of Tanzania earlier this summer. Heritage is the operator of the work programme
• The four licence areas are located in Eastern Tanzania and have a total area of approximately 25,000 square kilometres Seismic acquisition commenced this month, initially in the onshore part of the Kimbiji licence area
• First well planned during the second half of 2009

SOURCE: SNW Group

Mijadala isiishie kwenye Richmod na Buzwagi peke yake, kuna wawekezaji wengi wanaingia makubaliano na serikali kuvuna rasilimali zetu.

 

[BAK]

Dar RC backs Kigamboni residents on oil project

THIS DAY

A motor cyclist risks the lives of his three passengers as they do not have helmets as required by law. The scene was caught along Kilwa Road in Dar es Salaam yesterday.

DAR ES SALAAM Regional Commissioner Abbas Kandoro has backed Kigamboni residents being forced to vacate their area to pave way for a $2.6bn oil refinery and pipeline project.

The refinery and the oil pipeline from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma are to be built by a consortium of foreign investors led by a Qatar-based firm, M/S Noor Oil and Industrial Technology Limited (NOIT).

Other companies are Stroytransgas Public Corporation and Zakneftegaz-Prometery, both of Russia, and RONEG TAG of Germany.

It is understood that under the agreement, the consortium will build and operate a 200,000 barrel-a-day crude oil refinery in Dar es Salaam, and will also build and operate a 1,200-km petroleum products pipeline cutting across the country from Dar es Salaam to Kigoma.

Speaking to more than 300 residents in Kigamboni's Amani Gomvu area, Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Abbas Kandoro said it was illegal to force residents from their residential places to relocate without first being compensated.

''No one has the mandate and power to force people to relocate from their land without following legal procedures such as compensation,'' he said.

He said although survey and evaluations of the plots at the Amani Gomvu in Kigamboni had been undertaken, that was not a licence for the area residents to be forced to move from their area without compensation.

He said failure of the investors to develop the land in question returns the ownership of the land to the 300 households in Kigamboni's Amani Gomvu until when another new survey and evaluation are undertaken.

''The investors have not developed the land since when it was surveyed, thus a new survey with the right evaluation of the plots should be carried out,'' he said.

He urged investors wishing to invest in various parts of the city to follow legal procedures, including negotiating with concerned people who occupy the land.

The project has hit a snag with hundreds of ancestral landowners objecting plans to relocate them.

According to THISDAY findings, about 300 residents of the area are resisting local government pressure to move them.

It is understood that officials from the Temeke Municipal Council have been trying to get the area residents to sign forms of consent, a requirement for them to vacate the 1.5 square-kilometre land plot where the new oil refinery is to be built.

According to a representative of the affected residents, Haruna Maulid, the land in question was passed down to them by their ancestors.

''This land was under our ownership even before the Germans and the British came to Tanganyika,'' Haruna said, adding ''we have full rights on this land - and the government must ensure it respects all our rights.''

A former Temeke District commissioner is said to have on June 19 last year, formally informed the area residents that their land had been allocated for the oil refinery project, implying that they had to move away.

But the residents are apparently suspicious about how the entire project is being handled.

''The forms being issued to us by municipal council officers for the surrender of our land are suspicious because they don't even bear a government emblem or seal,'' noted Kombo Abbas Msati, an affected resident.

Tawadudi Mubarouk said:''I thought the (Temeke) DC had been sent to tell us of government plans to provide this area with more schools and hospitals. Little did we guess that they wanted to expel us from our own land.''

''Where is the decent life for all Tanzanians that the government promised us?'' Mubarouk queried.

The Temeke DC assured THISDAY that no one would be evicted from the area without compensation.

''I have already assured the area residents that all their basic rights with regard to the land they are currently occupying will be respected,'' he said.

According to the DC, the local partner company in the oil refinery project, Tanzanian Green Company Limited, has already fulfilled all government procedures for developing the project at the disputed area in Kigamboni.

The formal project agreement between the consortium and the Tanzanian government was signed in Dodoma on April 20 this year, with the then Planning and Economic Empowerment Minister Dr Juma Ngasongwa and his Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Charles Mutalemwa, signing on behalf of the government.

A NOIT Director, Ms Minoo Davar, represented the consortium at the agreement signing.

The project will go on record as the largest single investment to take place in the country since independence.

At one point, a rival investor company, the Dar es Salaam-based Africommerce International Limited (AIL), had vowed to seek legal redress over the government's decision to give the project to the foreign consortium at what they (AIL) claimed to be their expense.

AIL officials said that acting on the basis of an earlier government 'promise' that they would eventually be awarded the project tender, the company had gone ahead and invested close to $3m (approx. 3.9bn/-) on feasibility studies and marketing campaigns for the same project since the 1990s.

 

[Giro]

By KEVIN J. KELLEY
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

EXPERTS ARE expecting big oil discoveries in East Africa that could significantly alter the region's economic fortunes.

Results of recent geological surveys suggest that East Africa may soon become one of the world’s hottest oil exploration zones, with data analysed last year by Jebco Seismic, a UK-based geophysical contractor, showing major oil deposits off the coasts of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar.

In addition, the same rock formations now yielding large quantities of oil in Sudan are known to stretch into Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, says Jebco marketing director Chris Machette-Downs.

Kenya, for instance, has been agog with talks of oil prospects leading to a series of exploration expeditions, especially at the coastal strip.

An official at Kenya's Ministry of Energy, Wangari Githii, last week told The EastAfrican that the data obtained from the Kenyan offshore by Woodside Energy company is being interpreted in Australia with the hope that "we will strike oil."

Earlier surveys done by the US Department of the Interior found that the Kenyan coastal strip has the potential of producing about 100 million barrels of crude oil and over 600 million cubic feet of natural gas.

The same sentiments are held in Tanzania, where the Commissioner for Energy, Petroleum and Gas in the Ministry of Minerals and Energy,"The search for oil continues–We have yet to confirm that we have oil, but the presence of natural gas as a hydrocarbon was an early sign that there is hope," he said.

In Uganda, three international oil companies have so far invested more than $20 million in prospecting for oil, a senior official at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development said last week.

An Assistant Commissioner with the Petroleum Exploration and Production Department, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Ernest N.T. Rubondo, said that oil exploration in Uganda had resulted in the sinking of three exploration oil wells.

The exploration is taking place in the Albertine Graben, the northernmost part of the western arm of the East African Rift Valley system along Lake Albert in northwestern Uganda.

The companies include Heritage Oil and Gas Ltd, which was in 1997 licensed to prospect Area Three in the Semiliki Basin. Hardman Resources and Energy Africa were licensed in 2001 for exploration of Area Two in the Northern Lake Albert Basin, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo.

If expected discoveries are made in the next year or two, East Africa could begin producing significant amounts of oil early in the next decade, Mr Machette-Downs calculates. He cautions, however, that not all suspected "sweet spots" will fulfil their promise.

"We’re not going to get the masses of petroleum we have had in Nigeria," said Mr Machette-Downs, who, however, added that he does expect the East Africa finds to be larger than those of secondary sources in West Africa, such as Gabon.

Much of the oil pumped from wells in East Africa would likely be exported to the emerging industrial giants of Asia, Mr Machette-Downs suggests. Just as most of West Africa’s oil makes its way to ports in the US, East African oil could be most efficiently shipped to energy-hungry customers in India and China.

The prospect of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda emerging as significant oil suppliers may account for China’s growing diplomatic and economic involvement in East Africa, Mr Machette-Downs says.

At the same time, East African countries would benefit directly from major oil discoveries within their borders. Abundant domestic supplies would eliminate the need for oil imports, thus producing considerable savings for businesses as well as generating ample tax revenues for governments, besides ecological gains.

In a separate interview with a US State Department publication, Mr Machette-Downs cited the example of Tanzania, of which he says "Just a little oil there would solve so many problems; Tanzanians would not have to chop down the rest of their trees just to produce energy."

Until recently, East Africa’s potential oil fields remained underexplored for a variety of reasons. Petroleum prospectors point to the instability that has plagued parts of the sub-region, the remoteness of some sites, and the challenges posed by geological factors.

It now seems clear to Mr Machette-Downs and other specialists that most of these obstacles will be overcome or circumvented.

Some of the most encouraging sites in Kenya and Tanzania lie offshore – which would allow shipments to be made much more easily than from fields far upcountry, such as in western Uganda. In addition, technological advances in recent years have prompted experts to take a second look at test results that appeared unpromising a decade or two ago.

The source of all these potential deposits is the East African Rift and adjoining formations. While the interior sections of the rift zone consist mainly of volcanic rock, the system has been found to contain several sedimentary basins as well. It is from those onshore and offshore basins that oil would be extracted.

This could be welcome news for Kenya, where oil explorations have been going on since 1950s without tangible results.

Compared with Sudan, which has sunk about 80 wells, Kenya has only sunk about 30 test wells despite the fact that Sudanese oil fields are more or less geologically the same as Kenya's Northern Rift Valley. Experts, however, explain that the exorbitant cost has been a major constraint. A single well could cost as much as Ksh400 million ($5 million).

As a result, explorations can only be done by companies who sign production sharing agreements, with the hope of recovering their money once they strike oil.

The Kenya government gives the National Oil Corporation of Kenya – the government agency that licenses and markets explorations – Ksh100 million ($1.28 million) annually to undertake preliminary surveys, from which the data is sold to various companies that might be interested in explorations.

Despite lack of serious explorations in Tanzania, records show that oil presence had been noted on Pemba Island as far back as 1977.
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Mungu sijui atupe nini tena?? Kidonda??

 

[Mwana wa Mungu]

kuna mafuta kibao. mengine yako kibwena tu kule lake Rukwa basin ambayo tunge supply Zambia na hili bomba la mafuta toka Dar lingekatika ili wachukue mafuta yetu badala ya yale ya uarabuni toka Dar.(Tazama pipeline). Mtwara na Lindi, na visiwa vingine vya Tz ukiondoa Pemba na Zanzibar ambavyo tayari kuna uhakika, kuna mafuta mengi tu. along lake Tanganyika kuna mafuta pia(burundi walisha discover presence ya mafuta kwenye kale ka top kao ka lake tanganyika. tz na congo ndio wenye eneo kubwa zaidi la lake Tanganyika hivyo kama ni kuchimba mafut alake tanganyika tz na congo wangefaidi zaidi kuliko mengine.

presence of gas ambayo tz tulishaanza hata kufulia umeme na kuuza mombasa kwa wakenya, ni dalili kubwa sana kwamba mafuta yapo kule mnazi bay na songosongo island. bado mafia. Mungu ibariki Tanzania.

resources kibao, Mungu atupe nini jamani,gunia la chawa ili tuwamwagie mafisadi? we have coal deposit ambayo tunaweza kutumia zaidi ya miaka hamsini na mia moja. tunaweza kufulia umeme mwingi tukauza nchi zingine hizi. tunayo chuma ya kuchimba miaka mingi sana kule liganga. walisema wanataka kujenga kaleli hadi kule ludewa ili kubeba iyo chuma to the coast, lakini hadi sasa wanang'aa macho tu. wangetupatia sisi wengine hii nchi ndo wangeona namna tunavyfanya. Tz is among the richest nations in terms of resources, tunayo bahari pia ya kusafirishia hivi vitu. t