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Tanzania's President Magufuli orders officials to speed up LNG project
23rd August 2016

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Tanzanian President John Magufuli ordered officials on Monday to speed up long-delayed work on a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, saying implementation of the project had taken too long.

BG Group, recently acquired by Royal Dutch Shell, alongside Statoil, Exxon Mobil and Ophir Energy, plan to build a $30-billion-onshore LNG export terminal in partnership with the state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) by the early 2020s.


But a final investment decision has been held up by government delays in finalising issues relating to acquisition of land at the site and establishing a legal framework for the nascent hydrocarbon industry.

"I want to see this plant being built, we are taking too long. Sort out all the remaining issues so investors can start construction work immediately," the presidency quoted Magufuli as saying in a statement.

Magufuli, a reformist who took office in November, has sacked several senior officials for graft and cut spending he deemed wasteful, such as curbing foreign travel by public officials.

The president's office said Magufuli issued the instructions for the LNG project to be fast-tracked during talks with Oystein Michelsen, Statoil's Tanzania country manager, and senior Tanzanian government energy officials.

The Tanzanian presidency did not give the construction schedule for the project, but said once completed the LNG plant would have an expected economic lifespan of more than 40 years.

The government said it has acquired over 2 000 ha of land for the construction of the planned two-train LNG terminal at Likong'o village in the southern Tanzanian town of Lindi.

Tanzania discovered an additional 2.17-trillion cubic feet of possible natural gas deposits in February, raising the east African nation's total estimated recoverable natural gas reserves to more than 57-trillion cubic feet.

East Africa is a new hotspot in hydrocarbon exploration after substantial deposits of crude oil were found in Uganda and major gas reserves discovered in Tanzania and Mozambique.

Tanzania's President Magufuli orders officials to speed up LNG project
 

lakini wewe what crap are these you are posting on this thread? to achieve what exactly?
 
kwelko said:
wait, and what exactly is that though?
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Tanzania's President Magufuli orders officials to speed up LNG project
Mon Aug 22, 2016 4:00pm GMT
By Fumbuka Ng'wanakilala

DAR ES SALAAM Aug 22 (Reuters) - Tanzanian president John Magufuli ordered officials on Monday to speed up long-delayed work on a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, saying implementation of the project had taken too long.

BG Group, recently acquired by Royal Dutch Shell, alongside Statoil, Exxon Mobil and Ophir Energy, plan to build a $30 billion-onshore LNG export terminal in partnership with the state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) by the early 2020s.

But a final investment decision has been held up by government delays in finalising issues relating to acquisition of land at the site and establishing a legal framework for the nascent hydrocarbon industry.

"I want to see this plant being built, we are taking too long. Sort out all the remaining issues so investors can start construction work immediately," the presidency quoted Magufuli as saying in a statement.

Magufuli, a reformist who took office in November, has sacked several senior officials for graft and cut spending he deemed wasteful, such as curbing foreign travel by public officials.

The president's office said Magufuli issued the instructions for the LNG project to be fast-tracked during talks with Oystein Michelsen, Statoil's Tanzania country manager, and senior Tanzanian government energy officials.

The Tanzanian presidency did not give the construction schedule for the project, but said once completed the LNG plant would have an expected economic lifespan of more than 40 years.

The government said it has acquired over 2,000 hectares of land for the construction of the planned two-train LNG terminal at Likong'o village in the southern Tanzanian town of Lindi.

Tanzania discovered an additional 2.17 trillion cubic feet of possible natural gas deposits in February, raising the east African nation's total estimated recoverable natural gas reserves to more than 57 trillion cubic feet.

East Africa is a new hotspot in hydrocarbon exploration after substantial deposits of crude oil were found in Uganda and major gas reserves discovered in Tanzania and Mozambique.

(Editing by Aaron Maasho and Richard Balmforth)

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hehehe and this is relevant, to this thread how??
 
kwelko said:
hehehe and this is relevant, to this thread how??
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Tanzania's President Magufuli orders officials to speed up LNG project

Tanzania has acquired over 2,000 hectares of land at Likong’o- Mchinga in Lindi to pave the way for a $30 billion liquefied natural gas plant. TEA GRAPHIC | FILE

In Summary

  • BG Group, recently acquired by Royal Dutch Shell, alongside Statoil, Exxon Mobil and Ophir Energy, plan to build a $30 billion-onshore LNG export terminal in partnership with the state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) by the early 2020s.
  • But a final investment decision has been held up by government delays in finalising issues relating to acquisition of land at the site and establishing a legal framework for the nascent hydrocarbon industry.


Tanzanian president John Magufuli ordered officials on Monday to speed up long-delayed work on a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, saying implementation of the project had taken too long.

BG Group, recently acquired by Royal Dutch Shell, alongside Statoil, Exxon Mobil and Ophir Energy, plan to build a $30 billion-onshore LNG export terminal in partnership with the state-run Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) by the early 2020s.

But a final investment decision has been held up by government delays in finalising issues relating to acquisition of land at the site and establishing a legal framework for the nascent hydrocarbon industry.

"I want to see this plant being built, we are taking too long. Sort out all the remaining issues so investors can start construction work immediately," the presidency quoted Magufuli as saying in a statement.

Magufuli, a reformist who took office in November, has sacked several senior officials for graft and cut spending he deemed wasteful, such as curbing foreign travel by public officials.

The president's office said Magufuli issued the instructions for the LNG project to be fast-tracked during talks with Oystein Michelsen, Statoil's Tanzania country manager, and senior Tanzanian government energy officials.

The Tanzanian presidency did not give the construction schedule for the project, but said once completed the LNG plant would have an expected economic lifespan of more than 40 years.

The government said it has acquired over 2,000 hectares of land for the construction of the planned two-train LNG terminal at Likong'o village in the southern Tanzanian town of Lindi.

Tanzania discovered an additional 2.17 trillion cubic feet of possible natural gas deposits in February, raising the east African nation's total estimated recoverable natural gas reserves to more than 57 trillion cubic feet.

East Africa is a new hotspot in hydrocarbon exploration after substantial deposits of crude oil were found in Uganda and major gas reserves discovered in Tanzania and Mozambique.

Tanzania's President Magufuli orders officials to speed up LNG project
 
kwelko said:
lakini wewe what crap are these you are posting on this thread? to achieve what exactly?
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Just to inform our very neighbours this good news, for both of us..
See now, it begins.
LNG -Lindi set to make tz the superpower economy in the region,
the true game changer,
Over $30bn investment ??
Hahaha.,
Hii ni kufuru.
Sasa tukipiga hii kitu, tukaongeza
- SGR (over 2500km), ,
-Na Kiwanda cha mbolea Kikubwa zaidi Africa,
-Hoima -Tanga pipeline,
-ATCL is back,
-TAZARA iwe UPGRADED,na mambo mengine kemkem tunafunga mahesabu na
-Bagamoyo Port.. (Among the Largest in Africa)
Yaani 2025 I am not able to comprehend how powerful tz will be..
We tz, are the God's People.
Huu mwendo si wa kawaida.
Mungu ibariki Tanzania,
Bariki na majirani zetu hawa!
 
tuombe uhai kutoka juu mbinguni kwa Maulana........yote haya yatajulikana iyo 2025 ikifika tukiwa tunakumbushana haya maneno tunayoandika muda huu
 

good for you, and we pray for you that it all actually gets implemented. But for the sake of this thread, how is it relevant? Don't you think maybe a separate thread with the title 'development plans in Tz' would do? which of course wouldn't need to be in the Kenyan News section.....right?
 
Tanzania reclaims Eastern Triangle
ROSE ATHUMANI in Dodoma
25 August 2016



Tanzania is given back the mandate to monitor the eastern triangle portion


THE government will soon start earning a whopping 1bn/- yearly from handling and managing the Eastern Triangle airspace, currently being handled by Kenya, following installation of a new surveillance machine at Mnyusi area in Tanga region.

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The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority (TCAA) Acting Chief Air Traffic Management Mr Gideon Msheri said the Eastern Triangle portion of the airspace was allocated to Kenya in 1977 by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO).

Mr Msheri told the Infrastructure Development Committee here yesterday that Eastern Triangle which is a portion of Tanzania’s airspace was placed under Kenya’s management because Tanzania did not have the capacity then to communicate with planes passing through the airspace.

TCAA has so far written to ICAO requesting that Tanzania is given back the mandate to monitor the eastern triangle portion, which would earn the nation the 1bn/- per year.

“The surveillance system that we have installed at Mnyusi area in Tanga covers the eastern airspace and we have the right to claim back the eastern triangle airspace and earn the money which is currently going to Kenya,” Mr Msheri explained.

He said ICAO has agreed and anytime soon TCAA will have a meeting with organisation to enter into a new contract or receive new directives on the matter. The ICAO is a United Nations specialised agency, established in 1944 to manage the administration and governance of the Convention on International Civil Aviation.

The TCAA chief of air traffic management noted that with the new installed surveillance systems at Mnyusi in Tanga region, airlines passing through the eastern triangle airspace can be guided from within the country, hence the need to get the area back.

He said Tanzania has lost a lot of revenue from the eastern triangle airspace since 1977, noting that a study conducted showed that last year the nation lost 1bn/-.

“We cannot evaluate how much we lost in the previous years since it was allocated to Kenya but we did an evaluation two years ago on how much we are losing then and found out we were losing 1bn/- per year,” he explained.

The eastern triangle also covers Madagascar, Mauritius, Moroni and Mayotte islands. Mr Msheri expressed optimism to the committee members that the area would be given back to Tanzania, noting that the law allows any country to seek back its area after providing satisfying evidence to ICAO that it would be able to manage it.

The Committee had wanted to get more information on the matter and where TCAA was with addressing the issue.

Meanwhile the Infrastructure Development Committee will summon the minister of Home Affairs and the Minister of Works, Transport and Communication to discuss modalities of ensuring the Fire and Rescue force under TCAA is permanent.

The Committee Chairperson Prof Norman Adamson Sigalla said this would ensure personnel of the fire and rescue force under the TCAA who receives specialised training on how to put out fire on planes are not transferred to other areas that do not need that kind of specialised training.

Briefing the committee on some of the challenges facing TCAA, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication, Dr Leonard Chamuriho (Transport sector) said TCAA has no permanent fire and rescue personnel and vehicles, which does not paint a good picture for the country’s international airports.

He explained that the best solution is to have a permanent command under TCAA in accordance with the category of the airport, which will be available around the clock to provide safety measure anytime there is a fire disaster at the country’s airports.

“This has also affected our international rates with ICAO, the year before last we got 38 percent...a little below that we would have been categorised as dangerous zone,” he noted explaining that normally fire and rescue personnel working at airport and the Ports are given special training.

He added: “if a plane comes in to land and the fire and rescue vehicles have been taken outside the airport to put out fire, we are required to inform the pilot then it is up to him to land it and his own risk, this is not good according to international aviation standards.”

The remarks from the PS elicited different reactions from the committee members who expressed surprise that there was no permanent command at the country’s international airports. Some noted that even vehicles used in the fire and rescue at airports, most especially in the regions were outdated and not fit to operate at all.

http://dailynews.co.tz/index.php/home-news/53001-tanzania-reclaims-eastern-triangle
 
Funny how people love to derail threads, and am not mentioning names. Let's stick to the point and discuss the thread along anyone of six parameters :
1. Customs.
2. Infrastructure.
3. International shipments.
4. Logistics competence.
5. Tracking and tracing.
6. Timeliness.




Thank you.
 
Pictures reveal stunning JNIA’s terminal III

















New JNIA’s terminal III


Others pictures, taken by workers, are showing duty free shops, arrival and departure lounge.

The design of the roof is inspired on the traditional sailing boats that can be found at the Dar es Salaam Coast. The new terminal III is designed—together with Netherlands Airport Consultants—for the anticipated growth of international air traffic, leaving the existing international Terminal II to cater for domestic flights.

The terminal building in phases will then provide further capacity to facilitate six million annual passengers and expects to be completed late next year.

The project, to cost Euro 235 million (518bn/-), is partly funded by the government in collaboration with BAM International of Netherlands and a consultant from Arab Consulting Engineers of Egypt.

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Tingatinga Art, Atanas Art, Henna Art and Makonde art should dress the airport! to make it authentic Tanzanian!
 

wtf geza!!!! now you are even claiming other people's airports!?? what a pity!! these are pictures of Muscat International Airport in Oman. New Muscat International Airport terminal construction on track, Construction at new airport 91% complete: H E Futaisi - Oman
 
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